Articles written by Sabrina Gabriels

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Atonement - Golden Globe's best drama of 2007: 2 of 14

ATONEMENT Atonement is the adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2001 homonymous novel. I have not read Mr. McEwan's novel and can only write of the motion picture, directed by Joe Wright, which is fascinating on multiple levels all on its own. The first sensorial experience of the movie is auditive: we hear the shuffle of a manual typ...
Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book reviews: Aura, by Carlos Fuentes: 1 of 1

In the western world reigns a judeo-christian conception of love. The revered love stories of occident are those where the couples find untimely deaths in order to fulfill the calling of their passion: Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, etc. At the center of such a dilemma is the underlying belief that true Love is not of...
Arts & Humanities > Historical Literature Book reviews: Roma Sub Rosa, by Steven Saylor: 2 of 2

TWO GENRES = TWO PASSIONS = ONE SERIES The epitomic whodunit acquires a new dimension when situated in ancient Rome. In this setting we are not confronted with a large detail of forensic evidence or made privy to the deceits and pitfalls of the modern day legal system. Instead we come face to face with a compassionate and de...