This month over at Five Books For, we've been exploring wintry books that are perfect for reading on cold nights, especially if you're wrapped up warm in front of a fire. With that in mind, this...
Some books break you open, and some widen your cracks to let in light. They dim the comfort of the mundane and call upon you to face your thoughts. If you’re fortunate, you meet up with those often...
Everyone wonders how an elderly gentleman can climb down chimneys every Christmas and deliver all those presents in one night. The answer is simultaneously simple and implausible: magic. Although...
As the year comes to an end, energy is also waning and time seems to be running out. But this is not the moment to stop the urge to read, as there are plenty of great books that come with few pages....
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...
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...
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...
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 /...
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...
As the horrors take over the night during Halloween, we are bringing you the best books with scary stories to get you in the mood. Here are some of the masters of the genre, with tales that have...
