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Early in Scott Turow's new novel, Reversible Errors (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 434 pages), defense attorney Arthur Raven realizes his death-row client is almost certainly innocent. Raven, a low-profile corporate lawyer who has been drafted into the case by the federal appellate court, is close to panic. "If something goes wrong here I will feel like somebody sucked the light out of the universe...
...fictional Kindle County, where the truth is never the whole truth and justice is often merely a point of view. The story of how a wrong man is sentenced to death for a triple murder is told through the eyes of four flawed characters: the middle-aged, despairingly single Raven; Muriel Wynn, the cynical prosecutor; Larry Starczek, a hard-boiled cop; and Gillian Sullivan, a judge known for taking bribes. Turow never promised it was pretty out there...
...light does not go out in Arthur Raven's universe--in the end justice is seen to be done. But if Raven achieves a weary self-enlightenment, nowhere does Errors deliver a clear judgment on the death penalty. Instead it conveys a deep sense of unease. A wrongful execution, after all, is one legal error that can never be reversed
...these is "Tobermory," adapted by Gabrielle Bell from a story by H.H. Munro, about a housecat who, upon being taught to speak, reveals its owner's most embarrassing secrets. Fantastic animals become a kind of sub-theme, as in David Lasky's adaptation of E.A. Poe's "The Raven." Testing the definition of a comic, instead of containing distinct images, the panels themselves form a picture when viewed as a whole. "Orchid" splendidly mixes modern comix storytelling with a bygone era's mastery of prose and atmosphere...
...rock on other stations. The network's "lyrically screened" songs--hits by such nonthreatening acts as Aaron Carter and Mandy Moore--are acceptable to both parents and kids. "I listen because they play the songs I like and to find out what new artists are coming out," says Raven Henderson, 11, of Brooklyn...