Scoop 19 January 17th, 2026In this episode, a powerful novel (The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store) about—among many other things—a corrupt doctor in the racist and ethnically divided America of the 1920s and 1930s, a film (Vie privée) about a psychiatrist, an ophthalmologist, and a patient of the former who committed suicide, and finally the …
Better late than never, we turn our attention to two novels that are among the finest published in the past year: Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness and In My Eyes I Wear Clouds by psychiatrist Forugh Karimi. We also discuss two films about, among other things, the roots and consequences of addiction: Urchin and The Chronology of Water.
In this episode a film (If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You) about a mother who is burdened by caring for her young daughter who suffers from a serious eating disorder; and a comedy with a rather dark edge: the film The Last Viking.Final editing/correction: Cathri van de Haar FilmIf I Had Legs, I’d Kick …
This episode features three films. Second Victims is about how a doctor can become the “second victim” after making a medical error, Die My Love is about a young woman who loses her mind after the birth of her child, and On Vous Croit is about how child abuse disrupts lives.Final editing/correction: Cathri van de …
This edition focuses on the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). We recommend four documentaries. The reality of psychosisIn the documentaryThe Desert of the Real, director Luuk Bouwman gives a voice to six people who have experienced psychosis. What they have in common is that at certain points in their lives, they came under severe …
This time, the lives of two patients: the novel Il male che non c’`e, (The Evil That Is Not There) is about a young hypochondriac, the film Nino is about a young man of almost the same age who is suddenly diagnosed with throat cancer. NovelIl male che non c’`e, (The Evil That Is Not …