TY BURR

Armie Hammer is in ‘Crisis’ and they can’t hide it

Trailers for the opioid epidemic thriller were already in the can when allegations of abuse surfaced online. 6:25 p.m.

A.Z. MADONNA

When Beethoven resonates in a crisis

For many BSO fans, the composer's music conjures happy memories. But it can also carry our grief. 4:22 p.m.

MOVIES

Some sequels take longer (a lot longer) to arrive than others

"Coming 2 America" comes from a long line of long-in-the-making part twos. 4:00 p.m.

MATTHEW GILBERT

10 things TV should stop doing right now

Golden Globes? Gone! Reboots and spinoffs? See ya! More streaming services? Enough already! 3:49 p.m.

TELEVISION

‘Ray Donovan’ will get a feature-length finale

Showrunner David Hollander will direct and co-write the movie with star Liev Schreiber, and Jon Voight (Ray’s father) and Kerris Dorsey (Ray’s daughter) have already signed on to reprise their roles along with Schreiber. 3:37 p.m.

MURRAY WHYTE

W.E.B. Du Bois showed us the power of data viz more than a century ago

The Great Barrington-born thinker created a set of gorgeous graphics for the 1900 Paris Exposition. 2:46 p.m.

BOOKS

Crime and damages in ‘The Lowering Days’

Gregory Brown’s graceful and compassionate debut novel ponders right and wrong in a Maine mill town. 2:15 p.m.

BOOKS

A fictional retrospective of a filmmaker’s life in ‘Foregone’

Depending on how you slice acclaimed author Russell Banks’s 13th novel, you might find a book about a temperamental, privileged, cishet white male artist, a book about capturing art, a book about dying, a book about personal truth, or even a book about how the spotlight lies to us. 2:06 p.m.

BOOKS

Glenn Adamson on the perfect reading chair and books organized by color

In his new book, “Craft: An American History” Adamson chronicles how “makers” and “making,” long before they became buzz words, contributed to the story of our country, from Jamestown until today. 1:54 p.m.

A complicated patrimony in ‘Endpapers’

The child of an immigrant often bears witness to startling moments of intercedence, where their parent’s long-buried past suddenly ruptures the present. Alexander Wolff knows these occurrences; he writes of them in “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home.” 1:51 p.m.

An award for immigrant writing, an essay contest devoted to tales of Black joy, and new poetry from a longtime Boston resident

All the local news of a bookish bent. 1:29 p.m.

BOOKS

Author Larry Olmsted on the massive benefits of sports fandom

In "Fans," Olmstead details how rooting for the home team can affect the human psyche. 1:23 p.m.

Local bestsellers for the week ending February 21

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. 1:12 p.m.