Author: Catherine Hardman

Here’s a riddle for you: what’s more complicated than a book or TV show, but simpler than a game? The answer is “a visual novel”—and most people have no idea what that is, despite visual novels’ growing popularity. Visual novels...

“Spotlight” is a film that definitely earned its best picture award in 2015. It is based on the Boston Globe’s investigation of the Catholic priest child-abuse scandal in 2002. It manages to both feel rooted in the early 2000s...

“All the President’s Men” and the Watergate scandal it inspired feels all-too-modern, despite being set in the 1970s. It’s as though presidential scandals rear their ugly heads with each generation. But in this particular case...