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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...
Fear was present in literature long before Edgar Allan Poe heard a heart beating beneath the floorboards, before H. P. Lovecraft gazed out into the cosmos, or before Stephen King turned an empty hotel into one of the most unsettling places in...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian writer Anne Carson, recognized for a body of work that breaks with traditional forms of writing and combines poetry, essays, fiction, and references to classical literature. Carson,...
