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BOOKS
Local bestsellers for the week ending July 25
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
BOOKINGS
Virtual author readings for Aug. 1 - 7
All author appearances are virtual unless otherwise noted.
What’s happening in the arts world
This week's picks from Globe critics.
OMNIPOP
Eurovision’s continental shift
The most improbable development after an oddball Italian band won this year? Success in America.
MATTHEW GILBERT
In some of TV’s best series, extraordinary ordinary people
"Mr. Corman" is the latest addition to a rich genre of TV portraiture, stories embedded with small ordeals and epiphanies that are never plot-driven.
TELEVISION
Final ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ episodes will air in coming weeks
Beginning Aug. 12, NBC will air two back-to-back episodes per week over five weeks — but not five consecutive weeks.
STAGE REVIEW
This ‘Tempest’ was worth the wait
John Douglas Thompson excels as Prospero in the Free Shakespeare on the Common production originally scheduled for last summer.
DANCE
Archie Burnett spins underground dance club memories at Jacob’s Pillow
With "Life Encounters," the grandfather of House Ninja proves he can still get down.
MURRAY WHYTE
For Roxbury’s Ekua Holmes, an art career that keeps flowering
The very first museum survey of her illustrations for children's books opened this month at the MFA.
STAGES
A new Mamet play and a new Berkshires theater are well-matched
Playwright David Mamet and Great Barrington Public Theater cofounder Jim Frangione are longtime friends and collaborators.
Terri Lyne Carrington brings explorations of jazz and social justice to Newport
Her band Social Science's highly acclaimed "Waiting Game" was the result of a disparate group of artists meshing at the right moment. On Saturday, they'll play at the Newport Jazz festival.
At Newport Jazz Festival, legends, rising stars, and exciting collaborations
The sold-out festival returns this year afer last year's cancellation.
50 years after ‘Sister Kate,’ Taylor comes full circle
The singer has stepped out of her quiet life on the Vineyard to reunite with producer Peter Asher for a new album, "Why Wait!," and a series of local live shows.
MOVIES
In Focus: Val Kilmer, superstar
The star of "The Doors" and "Batman Forever" is the subject of a new documentary.
MOVIES
In ‘The Green Knight,’ a medieval world where nothing is more real than magic
Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander star in this adaptation of a 14th-century epic poem.
MOVIES
What if Jack Sparrow and Indiana Jones took a ‘Jungle Cruise’ up the Amazon?
The new Disney action-adventure movie has elements of both "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."