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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 are closed. Here’s a selection of culture to be found around town, as well as online and streaming.

Tables for Two: EMP To Go

Comment: Failures of Duty

Philadelphia Postcard: Over It

Under the Streets: Ballistic

At the Museums: Together Again

The Other Coast: Dread by the Pool

American Chronicles: The Trump Papers • What will happen to the President’s records when he leaves the White House?

Shouts & Murmurs: First Lines of Rejected “Modern Love” Essays

Letter from California: An Unstoppable Force • How Vallejo’s police department took over its politics and threatened its people.

Annals of Activism: The Anti-Coup • Strategic nonviolent conflict has led to democratic reforms around the world. Can it work here?

Poem: We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On

A Reporter at Large: Follow the Leader • In the underground movement for a new North Korea, only one man knows the extent of its power.

Fiction: The Old Man in the Piazza

Poem: Back from the Cannery

On Television: Playing Games • Royal competition in Season 4 of “The Crown.”

Books: What Do You Know? • Wikipedia, “Jeopardy!,” and the fate of the fact.

Books: A Word, a Corpse • How Paul Celan reconceived language for a post-Holocaust world.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Current Cinema: The Mark of Kane • “Mank.”

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