Fear takes many shapes, but few last as long as the ones born on the page. Some stories don’t need special effects or a soundtrack to unsettle you, only the quiet pulse of a sentence that knows...
Over at Five Books For this month, I've been thinking about a different type of Halloween read: the kind of book that leaves you feeling deeply unsettled, so much so that you have to keep putting...
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 /...
Normally in this column I take a book that’s been turned into a TV show or film, and see what happens in the shift from page to screen. However, this month over at Five Books For I've been looking...
There are books that don’t just talk about cinema, they breathe it. Works that draw back the curtain and allow us to witness how images, ideas and obsessions are transformed into art. Quentin...
Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark...
For many readers, books are more than simple objects: they are windows to other worlds. And although book lovers often dream of building a grand personal library, there is not always enough space to...
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...
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...
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...
