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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday April 24, 2026
This month’s reading selections offer a small literary journey through landscapes. In these novels, natural settings play a prominent role and accompany the development of the stories, whether through mountain trails, coastal marshes, or distant territories where nature is part of everyday life. Through these settings, the authors craft narratives that allow readers to travel […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 23, 2026
International Mother Earth Day, celebrated every April 22, reminds us of the historical debt we owe to the planet. Established by the UN in 2009, this day confronts us with a world wounded by the climate crisis and indifference. More than just a date on the calendar, it is a call to contemplate the true […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 22, 2026
If you’re following U.S. foreign policy – whether with a sense of amusement, fear, scorn, or whatever it is you want to feel – you might have noticed allegations in the press that the Pentagon threatened the Vatican with the return of the Avignon Papacy; basically a time when popes resided in France due to […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday April 21, 2026
The question of the place for human creativity in today’s algorithm-driven world has become unavoidable. In this context, doubts arise that no longer belong solely to the realms of philosophy or science fiction. What happens to creativity when a machine can reproduce it? Who truly controls the data that define our digital identity? Does technology […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday April 20, 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 April 17, 2026
This month over at Five Books For I’ve been looking at classics in translation, and while there are plenty of options from around the world to explore, one that is closer to home – for me at least – is Beowulf. It’s an Old English epic, composed more than a millennium ago and preserved in a […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 16, 2026
The Secret Agent is an elegiac, surreal, brutal yet hopeful, study of Brazil’s collective memory of life under the military dictatorship in the 1970s. The dreamlike fluidity of writer/director Kleber Mendonça’s third feature written under the far-right coercion of Jair Bolsonaro’s corrupt and fraudulent four-year presidency connects the joint trauma of a nation across the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 15, 2026
After a three-year wait, adrenaline and boxing return to Netflix with the second season of Bloodhounds (사냥개들). Based on Jeong Chan’s acclaimed webtoon, this seven-episode season (each approximately an hour long) expands the universe of corruption and loyalty that captivated the world in 2023. Starring the charismatic duo of Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi, the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday April 14, 2026
I resisted watching Love Story for a long time. The reaction of the Kennedy family and many other friends of John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy to the TV series put me off. The view of so many of their inner circle seemed to be that the portrayal of those two iconic figures […]
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