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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...

Great Adaptations: Dissolution (Shardlake) on screen

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...

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