Fear was present in literature long before Edgar Allan Poe heard a heart beating beneath the floorboards, before H. P. Lovecraft gazed out into the cosmos, or before Stephen King turned an empty...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian writer Anne Carson, recognized for a body of work that breaks with traditional forms of writing and combines poetry, essays, fiction,...
James Deaville, Carleton University and Sara Beth Lyons, Carleton University As Halloween approaches and screen audiences are saturated with the sights and sounds of screaming women in horror films...
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 /...
A friend and I had lunch together today. Choosing from the menu, I said “Shall we go for the extravagant option?” But we weren't being outrageous; quite the opposite. In this context, the...
Some books sound like they just shouldn't work, and those have been the focus of this month’s book selection over at Five Books For. A boy stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger? It's an...
About one in seven people around the world have some kind of mental health problem, according to the World Health Organisation, and this means that many are looking for help and advice. But people...
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 /...
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...
The greatest pleasure of the many pleasures found in Zach Cregger’s 2026 reboot of Resident Evil is the hilarious and mundane running commentary of millennial medical courier, Bryan played with...
