Book review: A Slow Fire Burning
Three mysterious women and a heinous murder form the narrative framework of Paula Hawkins' new thriller. A Slow Fire Burning is an agile and harrowing story that is sustained with quality until the...
Author: Carolina Alvarado. R.
Carolina is a journalist and a university professor. She has more than a decade working for both print and audiovisual media. Her main goal as a Venezuelan journalist is to tell interesting and inspiring stories.
TV review: Juvenile Justice
The South Korean series Juvenile Justice has become one of Netflix’s most popular non-English-language titles. It is an insightful legal drama that raises important ethical questions about the...
Book Review: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
Neurosurgeons are often faced with thorny decisions. Although surgeries are usually meticulously calculated, there will always be latent risks and dangers. Once in the brain, doctors explore an organ...
Book Review: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking is a touching yet distant book, an exhaustive reflection on illness, death, and the need for mourners to reconstruct the meaning of their own existence. In it, journalist...
Peacemaker: daring DC fiction that laughs at itself
Peacemaker made his big screen debut in 2021, as one of the antiheroes in the film The Suicide Squad. Months later, the vigilante returns with his own web TV series, directed by James Gunn. This...
Review: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by writer Kazuo Ishiguro since being awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017. It is a dystopian science fiction story that delves into the meaning of love, loneliness,...
Dopesick review: on human greed and corporate power
Dopesick is a blunt and heartbreaking series that reconstructs the worst opioid crisis in U.S. history. The eight-episode drama starring Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Kaitlyn Dever, Rosario Dawson...
Book review: Almond by Won-pyung Sohn
In her first novel, director and screenwriter Won-pyung Sohn tells the challenging story of Soon Yunjae, who has been diagnosed with alexithymia. This condition is a rare emotional deficiency that...
Self-compassion to reduce New Year anxiety
New Year's Eve is supposed to be one of the most joyous occasions to celebrate. No matter where you look - television, social media, emails, family, friends, co-workers - there seems to be great...
Review: Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerengal
The young Frenchman Simon Limbeau is the eldest son of Marianne and Sean. Since he was a child, he has had a wild, carefree and somewhat cat-like soul. At 19 years old, he is devouring his youth and...