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In praise of mushy peas, the underrated northern delicacy

There's something profoundly comforting about a dollop of mushy peas squeezed onto the plate next to your pie, or in a Styrofoam pot with your chippy tea. Often dismissed by food snobs as some kind of unspeakable green mush, these tasty legumes...

Book Bytes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review

We are really thrilled to have a new series on Global Comment, Book Bytes, where we will review books in a short video format. This first instalment has Nasser Ali Khasawneh talking about how enchanted he was by The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...

An effective but flawed grief drama: His Three Daughters review

Chamber pieces are films with a small cast and they are primarily set in a singular location, generally, with limited budgets.  Often times those limitations can be felt in the repetitiveness of dull camera set-ups in the same two or three boring...

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