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A look at religion as it s experienced every day; an inspiring new children s book; and a tribute to those Public Garden ducks

NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS A look at religion as it’s experienced every day; an inspiring new children’s book; and a tribute to those Public Garden ducks By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 4:38 p.m. Email to a Friend Healing spirits A woman named Donna Haskins tells a young man in Boston that he’d play basketball again, despite a hip surgery that had ended his college sports career. Her words have more power than the young man originally believes possible. Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s layered and insightful new book, “Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World” (Columbia University) looks at religion as it’s experienced not in chapels, churches, temples, or mosques, but in the everyday world and individual bodies of Black women in Boston. Woodbine writes of Haskins’s awareness of and experience with “an-other dimension, a nonmaterial world,” one not defi

In Her New Book White Magic, Elissa Washuta Searches for Healing

Although it’s explicitly structured in three acts—and around tarot cards—Elissa Washuta’s new book White Magic (out April 27) feels shaped by a system altogether more immense and inconstant: the internet. Here, as online, the principal voice is a nonfictional first person. Here, as online, this “I” quotes from sources as varied as Louise Erdrich, video games, The Catholic Encyclopedia, old tweets, and a Stevie Nicks profile. Here, as online, some facts slip into a liminal space, presumed true but not precisely perceived so. Washuta cites “witch internet” for occult knowledge, one of the book’s subjects. She cites Wikipedia. And here, as online, the whole experience is teeming, harrowing, funny, smart, contradictory, difficult to summarize. Jacket blurbs like to call any book that drifts and ponders “a meditation.”

Stranger Suggests: Demon Anime! Abstract Paintings! Port Townsend!

ever is coming to Washington. Half a year after its theatrical release in Japan, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train will tour American theaters. Yes! Movie theaters. We can go to those now. The movie is based on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the wildly popular anime and manga series that follows Tanjiro Kamado, a teen who turned to demon-slaying after a demon killed his entire family and turned his sister, Nezuko, into a demon. In season one, Tanjiro and a pacified Nezuko comb Japan looking for a way to turn Nezuko human again, fighting a lot of demons along the way. The movie picks up where season 1 left off and acts as a canonical bridge between season 1 and the soon-to-be-released season 2. During just its opening weekend in Japan last year,

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