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BOOKS
Too good to be true?
In 2012, a professor at Harvard Divinity School announced a potentially earth-shaking discovery. A hitherto unknown papyrus fragment suggested that Jesus might have been married.
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BOOKS
Aimee Bender gives objects lives all their own
In “The Butterfly Lampshade,” objects behave in ways that blur the line between reality and imagination.
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LOCAL BESTSELLERS
Local bestsellers for the week ending Aug. 2
Bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
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NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS
Drawing angels and inspiration; issues of race and political history discussed at the BPL
Literary news and notes from around the region.
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TELEVISION
‘Immigration Nation’ offers an alarming close-up view of ICE officers at work
The filmmakers embedded with immigration enforcement agents for 2½ years to produce the Netflix docu-series.
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HomeFront: ‘Waking up to fear and embracing it as a constant’
The Globe's picks for staying entertained every day of the week.
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At the Gardner, Adam Pendleton puts the art world’s sins in black and white
His pocket-size "Elements of Me" exposes the exclusions of 20th-century Surrealism and Abstraction.
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At the Gardner, a goddess of the underworld rises
After sinking for more than a century, the Gardner's ancient Persephone statue stands tall once more.
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MOVIES
Decision to put ‘Mulan’ on Disney+ rather than in theaters is an indicator of things to come
The wall between movies in theaters and movies on demand continues to crumble, under assault from COVID-19 and the desperation of major Hollywood studios with increasingly clogged pipes.
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BOOKS
Sarah Stewart Johnson looks toward Mars
The “The Sirens of Mars” author explores our endless fascination with the red planet and interweaves that story with her own evolution as a planetary scientist.
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A body is found, and a family reacts, in ‘The Boy in the Field’
In her latest novel, Margot Livesey spins a luminous tale of what happens to a family after three teenage siblings discover a young man unconscious in a field. Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang, waiting for an after-school ride from their father, decide to start walking down the Oxford country roads towards home.
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In Focus: Seeing post-Soviet society on ice in ‘Red Penguins’
Gabe Polsky's documentary is rollicking, absurd, outrageous, and ominous.
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MOVIES
‘Made in Italy': The food is fine, the father-son relations less so
Liam Neeson stars with his real-life son Micheál Richardson.
New parents must set firm boundaries
Advice from Amy Dickinson.
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‘Avenue 5’ has sensed our desperation
Rewatching the satirical HBO series in this moment feels very different than when it premiered in January.