Why is somebody only considered to have truly read a book if they’ve read it with their eyes, on paper? This is an argument that you’d think would have run its course by now, but apparently it...
Laura Jansen, University of Bristol For over four decades, Anne Carson has been quietly redrawing the map of contemporary literature. Poet, translator, classicist, essayist, performer and visual...
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 /...
This month’s reading picks focus on the habits that support learning and the small changes that can make getting back into a routine a little easier, just as a new school year has started in many...
What happens when the person you thought you would spend the rest of your life with drops an unexpected bombshell that brings everything to an end? In her new book, Hungry Love, Tomiko Diaz explores...
I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an...
This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in...
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 /...
July brings an interesting coincidence to the literary calendar: just three days (and 22 years) apart, Alexandre Dumas père and Alexandre Dumas fils were born, two writers who shared not only a last...
This month, over at Five Books For, we've been looking at books that reimagine the Victorians - a selection of modern novels that revisit the nineteenth century from fresh and often unexpected...
