A Stage, a Shelter, and a Russian War Crime

A book review of James Verini’s “The Theater”

Damage to the Western facade of the theatre after the airstrike. By Lirhan2016 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

I remember exactly when Ukraine stopped being just “another headline” to me: It was early 2016, and I was catching up on the excellent field dispatches of then-Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky and his series called “Russian Roulette.”

By the way, it is a…