SEE: Something Special #16
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 /...
Month: November 2024
Great Adaptations: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell on screen
This month at Five Books For, I've been exploring historical fiction and I'm so excited to share here one of my favourite books of all time and the absolutely brilliant adaptation of it which I hope...
Beyond red flags: the TikTok dating terminology you need to know
Thought red flags were the only color that can help you decode your love life? No! The newest term coined by Gen Z is beige flags, as of 2022, but it's gained popularity over the last year on TikTok...
Interview with Anna Rajmon, author of Elis: Irish Call Girl
Czech author and illustrator Anna Rajmon, whose book Elis: Irish Call Girl has been reviewed for Global Comment by me this month, was gracious enough to grant me some of her time to discuss the...
“Lucid, eye-opening book”: Elis: Irish Call Girl by Anna Rajmon
In Elis: Irish Call Girl, Czech author and illustrator Anna Rajmon tells her story of working in the Irish sex trade. Her purpose in doing so is to warn any young women thinking of entering this...
The foods I miss from England since living abroad (and the things I’ve completely gone off after being away)
When you've lived abroad for a long time, there are lots of things you miss about home. Mostly your family, I find, although food seems to have a special power to make me feel a wistful nostalgia for...
READ: Something Special #15
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 /...
“An intellectual horror film”: Heretic review
Heretic, directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, is a genre-bending film that draws viewers into a dark, thought-provoking thriller, packed with tension and laced with questions about faith,...
Six poems that tell stories about monsters and monstrosity
Jon Stone, Anglia Ruskin University Poetry isn’t a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents. That, or...
“The past is alive and churning around us always”: Once Upon A Time in America
I’m having a hard time writing this column in the glare of the presidential election and the revelation that a dear friend has passed away (it happened a while ago, across the Pond, and I wasn’t...