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In China, people may speak privately about political taboos, like the detention of Uighurs, but to do so in public can be highly risky. Jiayang Fan reports on how the app Clubhouse has suddenly offered a platform for large numbers of people to communicate honestly and reckon with their government’s human-rights abuses. Plus, Anthony Hopkins, discussing his new role as a father with dementia, spills the trade secrets of a lifetime: “Don’t act too much,” he tells us. And the writer Patricia Lockwood puts the language of the Internet into the form of a novel.