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“There is a lot of meat to this story”: King Sorrow by Joe Hill

People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel - I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of punishment. Poetry and short stories cannot. Every...

Romantic literature and self-love: intimacy as the origin of connection

Contemporary conversations about love often revolve around the search for the right partner, as if emotional fulfillment depended mainly on finding someone who completes us. Far less attention is given to the relationship that makes any meaningful...

READ: Something Special #77 – Bihon women in South Korea

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...

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