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She can communicate with ghosts. Here's what she learns from the 'Sad Dead' (opens the original)
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Even if you don't believe in them, ghost stories are eerie. They take place on the threshold between our daily world and a mysteriously unknown realm. Now, many movies and books cross this threshold merely to scare the bejeezus out of us. But the greatest ghost stories aim to do something more — such as capturing the weight of Mexico's past like Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, or exploring one's own madness, as Stanley Kubrick does in his adaptation of Stephen King's much saner The Shining. You find
'The Disappearers' is a fiercely personal novel that hits like a tidal wave (opens the original)
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The popular image of Jamaica is of an outpost of pleasure, with shimmering white beaches, James Bond seducing sexy women in mountain resorts and Bob Marley singing his gorgeous songs of unity and love. But it's also one of the more dangerously homophobic countries on earth. That reality forms the backdrop to The Disappearers, the blazing new novel by Marlon James, the gay Jamaican writer who won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, and will probably win again for this one
No wonder 'Coyote vs. Acme' is resonating. It's about runaway corporate power (opens the original)
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Like most of you, I grew up watching cartoons. For me, the best — and purest — series was always the Road Runner. Its true hero is not, of course, that smug, beep-beeping bird. It's his perpetually thwarted pursuer Wile E. Coyote, who, alone in the most stripped-down of deserts, endures the endless futility of a Beckett character. (In fact, the character was created at the same time as Waiting for Godot.) Scheming yet inept, Wile E.'s so hellbent on catching the Road Runner that he keeps buying
'Diarra from Detroit' uses freewheeling comedy to take us to new places (opens the original)
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This is FRESH AIR. "Diarra From Detroit" is a Paramount+ series that stars Diarra Kilpatrick as a Motor City school teacher who keeps getting herself and her friends involved in mysteries. Now in its second season, the show is a favorite of our critic at large, John Powers. He says the show uses free-wheeling comedy to take us places we haven't been before. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: Because so much of television takes place in generic locations, I've always loved shows that are rooted somewhere real,
A new HBO series riffs on DC Comics' 'Green Lantern' (opens the original)
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This is FRESH AIR. The new HBO series "Lanterns" puts a contemporary spin on the DC Comics series Green Lantern, which has been around since 1940. Kyle Chandler stars as Hal Gordon (ph), whose status as the Green Lantern is threatened by the appearance of his successor, played by the British actor Aaron Pierre. Our critic-at-large John Powers has seen the seven episodes available for preview and says that "Lanterns" is a superhero show aimed at people who may not like comic-book heroes. JOHN POW
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