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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday February 27, 2026
With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month’s Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings together novels with female protagonists who make decisions, exercise power, endure adverse circumstances, or redefine their place in the world. They are not […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday February 27, 2026
Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor’s Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink into a pit of heroin and betrayal, burst onto UK screens on February 23, 1996, without high expectations. However, since that day, […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday February 26, 2026
This March is shaping up to be an important month for television and streaming, with an exciting list of premieres that promise to take over our screens. Over the coming weeks, we’ll see a wide range of new series spanning a variety of genres: from the adrenaline-fueled adventure of Young Sherlock and the Brazilian historical […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday February 25, 2026
People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel – I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of punishment. Poetry and short stories cannot. Every awkward clause, every superfluous word, is going to […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday February 24, 2026
Contemporary conversations about love often revolve around the search for the right partner, as if emotional fulfillment depended mainly on finding someone who completes us. Far less attention is given to the relationship that makes any meaningful bond possible in the first place: the one we have with ourselves. Literature has long served as a […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday February 23, 2026
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday February 20, 2026
This month’s Five Books For theme is historical detectives and it has a kind of inevitability about it, given that detective fiction is my favourite genre – and there are so many wonderful books to recommend. This type of detective novel sits at a delicious crossroads – part puzzle, part time machine – and few […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday February 19, 2026
“Rubik’s Cube meets Rothko” is how Mark Cousins describes the style of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), “one of the foremost abstract British artists” (per Wikipedia), though certainly not a household name. It’s an oversight the unconventional documentarian is determined to correct with 2024’s A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things. (And enthusiastically so. A rhapsodic monologue about one […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday February 18, 2026
Forget Hollywood classics like Pretty Woman or 10 Things I Hate About You for a moment, because 2026 is the perfect time to give Mexican romance a chance. Whether you’re single or happily coupled up, who doesn’t love a fun love story? Mexican cinema may not be widely recognized for its romantic comedies. But the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday February 17, 2026
The boom in TV series that are based on romantic novels has not happened by accident. Readers have spent years longing for adaptations that honor the emotional pulse of the stories and don’t reduce relationships to pointless scenes. Television, with its ability to explore slower rhythms and more detailed characters, offers the ideal space for […]
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