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Global Comment
- 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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“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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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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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday February 16, 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 13, 2026
If the 1930s were Hollywood’s decade of confidence, then the 1940s are when that confidence begins to fracture. This is not an era defined by a single style or movement, but by a gradual shift in tone – a creeping sense that the old certainties no longer quite hold. The world was at war, then […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday February 12, 2026
Motormouth Marty Mauser is a grade-A shit heel. A 1950s hustler with a tommy gun delivery who won’t take no for an answer. He’s a lithe, wiry, fuck stick, spidering his way through New York city avenues and alleyways, dive bars and flea pits to wrangle 700 dollars to fly to London and win the […]
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With the anniversary theater run of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy being complete, I have found myself in conversation about The Two Towers again. In the year 2026, the second installment of Peter Jackson’s epic Tolkien adaptation is more relevant than ever. Originally my second favorite in the trilogy, I now find that […]
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There’s an odd moment that hits somewhere in your 30s or 40s when you realise you’ve been listening to the same Beautiful South albums for 20 years. Not because Blue Is The Colour isn’t brilliant – it absolutely is – but because, at some point, you kind of stopped seeking out new music. You’ve become […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday February 09, 2026
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