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International Booker Prize 2026: heartbreak, brutality, shapeshifting – six experts review the nominees

Vinicius de Carvalho, King's College London; Boriana Alexandrova, University of York; Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, King's College London; Karolina Watroba, University of Edinburgh; Marion Gibson, University of Exeter, and Narguess Farzad, SOAS, University of...

LISTEN: Something Special #88 – Fungi with Giuliana Furci

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...

Italian Neorealism: the radical art of paying attention – Late to the Movies

There’s a pleasing sense of continuity in moving from last month’s films - On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Best Years of Our Lives - into this one. Where that trio traced the evolution of acting, culminating in the raw...

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