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Rockport Music asked a singer to obscure ‘provocative titles’ by a Black composer. He declined.

The late Julius Eastman named his works using homophoblic and racial slurs.

Ruth Asawa stamps have arrived just in time for your mail-in ballot

With this honor, the late Japanese-American artist joins the ranks of Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth.
TELEVISION

‘Mom’ to forge ahead without Anna Faris

It’s unusual for a star to leave a successful series when there are no serious on-set or money issues, which appears to be the case here.

Editors’ Picks

5 books for the music-starved

New and notable titles for surviving another season without live performance.

‘What is public art even for?’ New works suggest a transformation on culture and shared space

Compelled by protests and the pandemic, Boston is rethinking the role of public artworks.

‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ on Netflix: It’s a date movie -- until it becomes a hall of mirrors

Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons play a couple on a long, snowy road trip to meet his parents, but who’s actually telling this story and what it means is increasingly uncertain.

CRITIC’S PICK: TY BURR

Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020

Why this movie critic isn’t reviewing ‘Tenet’

‘Ghost Tropic’: a long night yet a surpassing sense of peace

CRITIC’S PICK: MATTHEW GILBERT

Sarah Cooper syncs up with CBS for new comedy series

This week’s TV: The Fox News ‘Hoax,’ prime time for Republicans, and the VMAs

For the Tony Awards, the show will go on

BOOKS

In ’Monogamy,’ a portrait of a marriage

Sue Miller’s narratives have a prismatic quality. In “Monogamy,” an absorbing and meticulously crafted page-turner, she’s interested in how love, loss, and the accretion of wisdom can shift those angles of vision.

Hammond Castle sets the eerie scene for the stories of Poe

With the pandemic eliminating school field trips, Chamber Theatre pivoted to film, restaging four short pieces — “Annabel Lee,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and an audio version of “The Bells” — in the appropriately moody Gloucester venue.

HomeFront: ‘Like kryptonite to hardened cynics’

The Globe’s top picks for staying entertained any day of the week.

What’s happening (digitally) in the arts world

This week's picks from Globe critics.

TELEVISION

‘Quiz’ may supply answer to end-of-summer doldrums

The three-parter is based on a real-life “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” scandal from the early 2000s in England.

In ‘Coastal Elites,’ Kaitlyn Dever speaks to the hardships of a nurse during COVID

The actress says she felt "a huge amount of responsibility" to get her monologue right in the HBO film.

‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’: when what’s hanging on the wall isn’t art

Writer-director Natalie Krinsky talks about the new romantic comedy and the role relationship residue plays in it.

5 books for the music-starved

New and notable titles for surviving another season without live performance.

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BOOKS

Jason Diamond on grand settings and reading in the morning

In “The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs” Diamond examines how suburbia has shaped the country’s cultural landscape. He talks with Amy Sutherland about what he's reading now.

Virtual author readings for Sept. 6 - 12

A roundup of upcoming literary events.

In ‘With or Without You,’ a character wakes from a coma with new gifts

Author Caroline Leavitt returns to the medical mysteries she experienced 20 years ago.

ART REVIEW

At the Currier, the under-traveled intersection of video games and art

The museum's "Open World" exhibition points to possibilities both aesthetic and poetic.

Making good on a promise, Museum of Fine Arts names first-ever director of belonging and inclusion

Rosa Rodriguez-Williams led Northeastern University’s Latinx Student Cultural Center for more than a decade.

‘What is public art even for?’ New works suggest a transformation on culture and shared space

Compelled by protests and the pandemic, Boston is rethinking the role of public artworks.

BOOKS

Tracing what the paper industry did to an area of Maine in ‘Mill Town’

What began as an endeavor by Kerri Arsenault to piece together her family tree grew into a decade-long examination of pollution, poverty, and disease.

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The live-action ‘Mulan,’ streaming on Disney+, improves on the animated original

It has been wholly reimagined as a gorgeously visualized wide-screen action epic with no songs, a high-wattage Chinese cast, and a veneer of wuxia martial arts choreography.