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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday July 18, 2025
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a tale of love, loss, wealth and excess, is now 100 years old. Over at Five Books For this month we’ve been looking at classics that are quicker reads and this is a great one: perfect if you’re yearning for some literature but low on time, looking after kids on […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday July 17, 2025
After the finale of The Handmaid’s Tale this year, it didn’t take long for disappointment to surface on social media, with some viewers calling the last episode “awful.” However, that reaction overlooks a crucial detail: many are unfamiliar with the continuation that Margaret Atwood envisioned in The Testaments, her 2019 sequel that expands and deepens […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday July 16, 2025
Millions of tourists arrive every year to Machu Picchu, but not all of them take the time to explore other indigenous jewels preserved in Cuzco and the Sacred Valley. For me, spending a few days in this city meant gaining a more complete vision of Andean culture, and appreciating the monumental legacy that goes far […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday July 15, 2025
July 13 marked the 35th anniversary of the release of Ghost, a film that has left an important mark on the history of cinema, particularly in the romantic genre. Starring actors Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, it tells the story of a man who, after being murdered, returns as a ghost to protect […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday July 14, 2025
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 July 11, 2025
A few weeks ago, a friend sent me an Instagram reel that made me laugh. This was because she knew – as I had not stopped talking about it – that I was getting very into a particular app on my phone. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Holderness Family (@theholdernessfamily) […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday July 10, 2025
Gill Plain, University of St Andrews This piece contains spoilers for Towards Zero. Agatha Christie, a middle-class English crime writer who preferred to be known as a housewife, is the world’s bestselling novelist. Since her death in 1976, her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for cinema, TV and even video […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday July 08, 2025
TV in the first half of the 2025 has been wonderfully fruitful. There has been a little bit of everything, from dark comedies and teen dramas, to post-apocalyptic adaptations and heartwarming family stories. Each of these series has shown great potential and has taken our breath away over the past six months. The stark beauty […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday July 04, 2025
It would be fair to say that, generally speaking, I’m not much of a movie person. While others can quote entire scenes from their favourite films or debate the merits of different directors, I’ve always been more likely to reach for a book than a remote. I read a lot, and I even write a […]
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This week, it was announced that Neil Druckmann will be stepping away from HBO’s The Last of Us series to focus on his work for Naughty Dog. Some background in case you are not aware: Druckmann and Naughty Dog are responsible for the two games, The Last of Us and The Last of Us II, […]
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