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Goings On About Town: This Week • As ever, it’s advisable to confirm engagements in 1advance and to check the requirements for in-person attendance.

Dance: Spring Preview

The Theatre: Spring Preview

Night Life: Spring Preview

Classical Music: Spring Preview

Art: Spring Preview

Movies: Spring Preview

Tables for Two: Ci Siamo • 440 W. 33rd St.

Comment: Servant of the People

Kyiv Dispatch: Bomb Shelter

Moscow Dispatch: Manufactured Reality

American Chronicles: Far from the Tree • Did George Washington have an enslaved son?

Shouts & Murmurs: Reëntry Talking Points

The Control of Nature: Thrill of the Hunt • How wild antlers launched a multibillion-dollar industry.

Annals of Education: The Access Trap • What happens when a legendary public high school abandons selective admissions?

Poem: Verses on the Unknown Soldier

Letter from Ecuador: City of the Dead • Enduring one of the world’s most lethal outbreaks of COVID-19.

Fiction: The Biographer’s Hat

Poem: Cardiac Flicker

The Current Cinema: Nighthood • “The Batman” and “Ultrasound.”

Books: In Orbit • The men and women who circled around Marcel Duchamp.

Books: The Accidental President • What Harry S. Truman made of his moment.

Books: Briefly Noted

Musical Events: Singing Shadows • Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” at the Rothko Chapel.

Pop Music: Young Once • The youthful melancholy of the Lemonheads.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A lightly challenging puzzle.