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What Is Putin Thinking?

The national identity the Russian President has helped promulgate—illiberal, imperial, resentful of the West—has played an essential role in his brutal invasion of Ukraine. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/KolOpvD

It’s Such an Easy Drive

As long as you don’t hit traffic, it will definitely take you only thirty minutes to be in the Big Apple. And, when I say “the Big Apple,” I’m specifically referring to a supermarket in the Bronx. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/Jmjogrp

The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads

Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/XmxwaFR

The Mail

Letters respond to Rivka Galchen’s piece about xenotransplantation and Patricia Marx’s essay about getting rid of one’s possessions. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/uIpLHVv

Jay Newman Wants to Be the Wolfe of Wall Street

The sovereign-debt investor, best known for a fifteen-year legal fight with Argentina, channelled Tom Wolfe and John le Carré to write “Undermoney,” a financial thriller featuring Vladimir Putin, a Paul Singer-esque hedge-fund manager, and, of course, sex. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/FtjBQ3E

Ghosts at the Liquor Store

None of us thought my dad was the enemy. Perhaps booze was. At the time, thick as we were with shame, the enemy looked like other people. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/Z8j3XoO

Existential Bra-Fit Quiz

How do your straps fit? Have you adjusted them? If you’re able to adjust them but haven’t, why not? Don’t you realize you’re in control here? from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/4HSTxy3

Art in a Time of War

The images produced by artists historicize war’s sick seductiveness while concentrating the mind on past, present, and, ineluctably, future calamity. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/jW54NSY

History Lessons in “The Chinese Lady”

In a play by Lloyd Suh, at the Public, Afong Moy—who is believed to be the first woman from China to come to the United States, in 1834—summarizes the travails of the Chinese in America. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/aAqm2cB

Dionne Warwick’s Flawless Voice

The soul singer, a Grammy Hall of Famer who’s sold a hundred million records and counting, brings more than three decades’ worth of hits to City Winery. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/HYAv4zd

Searching for a Lost Son in Ukraine

Oleksii Shevliuha has been missing since 2014, when he went to fight Russian forces in the east. Jason Blevins and Olena Lysenko’s “I Never Had Dreams of My Son” follows the father who has never stopped searching for him. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/mv9wdV6

One Bird at a Time

The artist visits the Wild Bird Fund, a small nonprofit wildlife hospital on the Upper West Side. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/ohyukL1

Zhuzhed-Up Italian, at Ci Siamo

For his new restaurant near the Hudson Yards, Danny Meyer enlisted the chef Hillary Sterling, whose menu of wood-fire-roasted dishes and house-made pastas is stocked with crowd-pleasers. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/ZUL6QeS

Spring Theatre Preview

Michael R. Jackson’s salty musical “A Strange Loop,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in “Macbeth,” and more. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/E8Jgjfr

The End of Oil Drilling in L.A.

New legislation could locally kill off the dangerous, polluting industry that created the city. Is it merely NIMBYism, or the start of something bigger? from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/vRos7Da

Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Friends,” by Grace Paley, which was published in a 1979 issue of the magazine. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/i5hLOfV