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...
Category: Fiction
The best TV and streaming premieres: July 2025
July is especially jam-packed with new releases and has more creative ambition than you can imagine. From an electrifying Mexican action thriller to Lena Dunham's triumphant return to television,...
“Both will linger darkly in your mind”: Dept Q and Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story reviews
The UK is a small island studded with secrets and secret lairs. I’m not just saying that because I grew up amidst American expanses and am honestly in awe of how the British maximize every square...
4 emotional lessons to honor the 10th anniversary of Inside Out
Today, June 19, Pixar's Inside Out celebrates its 10th anniversary, and it's the perfect opportunity to remember the most valuable life lessons and emotional intelligence that this brilliant and...
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,...
Global Comment’s Book Club: May 2025
In April, the literary world bid farewell to one of its most influential voices: Mario Vargas Llosa, a master of narrative, political insight and human complexity. Vargas Llosa leaves behind a...
Mother’s Day 2025: 7 movies that portray motherhood – realistically!
The big screen has always been a great medium for depicting mothers in all their beauty and intensity. To be fair, Hollywood has never been shy about praising mothers, and some of the most iconic...
The slowness was the point: White Lotus season 3 review
The third season of Mike White’s White Lotus is concluded, and both the nuanced think pieces and complaints have rolled in. White has felt compelled to defend the show in its third season - and...
Five children’s books that feature positive male role models – from toddlers to teens
Vincent Straub, University of Oxford; Joanna Nadin, University of Bristol; Michael Joseph Richardson, Newcastle University; Robert Walker, University of Stirling, and Sarah Moore Fitzgerald,...
“A Lovecraftian nightmare”: 15 years of Beyond the Black Rainbow
Welcome to the future. Welcome to 1983. Welcome to Beyond the Black Rainbow. The digital year unfolds like the credits from Alien one number at a time, deliberate and sinister. Videotape is inserted,...