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Goings On About Town: This Week • In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many New York City venues remain closed. Here’s a selection of culture to be found around town, as well as online and streaming; as ever, it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements.

Goings On About Town: Television

Tables for Two: Tzarevna • 154 Orchard St.

Comment: Defeat

New Orleans Postcard: Oracle

San Francisco Postcard: Papers, Please

The Pictures: Bright-Yellow Coffin

Survival Dept.: Post-Postmates

Annals of Activism: The Sex Wars • Feminism and its fault lines.

Shouts & Murmurs: Wedding Update

Personal History: Part-Time Punk • Learning to love music—and to hate it, too.

A Reporter at Large: The Other Afghan Women • In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

Poem: Poetry Reading

Profiles: Force of Nature • Can Kathryn Paige Harden convince the left that genes matter—and the right that they’re not everything?

Fiction: The Monkey Who Speaks

Poem: Tin

Books: War with a Human Face • Have rules to curb the cruelty of military force backfired?

Books: Into the Void • A cautionary tale about science raises cautionary questions about fiction.

Books: Briefly Noted

On Television: Fallout • “NYC Epicenters 9/11 → 2021 ½,” on HBO.

The Current Cinema: Troubled Talk • “Azor” and “Language Lessons.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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