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NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS
A look at religion as itâs experienced every day; an inspiring new childrenâs book; and a tribute to those Public Garden ducks
By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 4:38 p.m.
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Healing spirits
A woman named Donna Haskins tells a young man in Boston that heâd 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. Woodbineâs layered and insightful new book, âTake Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophetâs Encounters in the Spirit Worldâ (Columbia University) looks at religion as itâs experienced not in chapels, churches, temples, or mosques, but in the everyday world and individual bodies of Black women in Boston. Woodbine writes of Haskinsâs awareness of and experience with âan-other dimension, a nonmaterial world,â one not defi
Although itâs explicitly structured in three actsâand around tarot cardsâElissa Washutaâs 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 âIâ 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 âwitch internetâ for occult knowledge, one of the bookâs 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 âa meditation.â
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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