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TV

Lore to awe

Amazon has taken a less-traveled route for its latest adaptation, drawing its name and inspiration from the popular horror podcast Lore.

Created by Aaron Mahnke, the podcast tells stories of horror and fear. The podcast is a rich storytelling experience blending digestible nuggets of history-based terror and their context in the larger scope of time. With Mahnke's narration intact, the show is a wicked concoction of Gothic animation, documentary and dramatization, all in support of a theme threading through the episode.

The documentary portions are fleshed out with beautifully rendered graphics and often unsettling historic photos.

Book

Modern medicine

Atul Gawande, the author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a surgeon, a Harvard professor and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gawande is well acquainted with his thoughtful writing about modern medicine.

The book, in which Gawande examines aging and death was named a top book of the year by numerous publications.

China Daily - Agencies