Global Comment’s Book Club: August 2025
There are moments when simply reading a good story isn’t enough — the desire to understand how it was written also begins to stir. For those curious about the art of storytelling, whether they...
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READ: Something Special #52 – Rewilding
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 /...
Great Adaptations: Richard Sharpe on screen
Welcome to this month’s Great Adaptations, where this month we're talking about heroes, specifically the kind of heroes who seem to be able to handle anything. Not the unlikely heroes, or the...
Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Dominic Davies, City St George's, University of London and Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg There are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history. The United Nations...
Global Comment’s Book Club: July 2025
This month, with the summer vacations in mind, we let ourselves be carried away by stories that encourage us to travel without leaving home. The books we recommend cover routes as diverse as they are...
Great Adaptations: The Great Gatsby on film
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a tale of love, loss, wealth and excess, is now 100 years old. Over at Five Books For this month we've been looking at classics that are quicker reads and this is...
Why you should read ‘The Testaments’ if you have watched ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
After the finale of The Handmaid’s Tale this year, it didn’t take long for disappointment to surface on social media, with some viewers calling the last episode “awful.” However, that...
Agatha Christie’s mid-century ‘manosphere’ reveals a different kind of dysfunctional male
Gill Plain, University of St Andrews This piece contains spoilers for Towards Zero. Agatha Christie, a middle-class English crime writer who preferred to be known as a housewife, is the world’s...
Global Comment’s Book Club: June 2025
Summer is approaching, bringing with it the promise of long days, much-needed breaks, and that irresistible urge to get lost in a great story. It’s the perfect season to refresh our reading list...
Jane Austen, 250 years later: the new (and old) adaptations that celebrate her legacy
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, and this anniversary has reignited interest in her life and work across all formats. Beyond commemorative editions and literary events,...