Over at Five Books For this month, I thought it would be interesting to explore something I've never yet covered: books to change your life. I'm not talking about great works of fiction either...
Faith is always on shaky ground. You might say that back in the good (or bad) old days, faith had more muscle. You could get burned at the stake for questioning your faith - or at least be run out of...
The pressure is on. You need to buy Christmas presents for everybody you love and, for some people, you are stuck. It’s an inevitable part of the season. If you know somebody who is fascinated by...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that this quote from Jane Austen is one of the most famous and quoted in literature. This opening line of Pride and Prejudice sets the tone for the novel and...
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 /...
Welcome to the second in our Book Bytes series on Global Comment, where will review books in a short video format. This first instalment has Nasser Ali Khasawneh talking about how much he enjoyed...
Relatively few groundbreaking science fiction series were broadcast in 2024. Among the most notable were Fallout, Prime Video's post-apocalyptic phenomenon; Netflix's ambitious 3 Body Problem; and...
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 /...
Since it's December, I thought it might be a good idea to take a look at how Christmas films became an established genre, starting with the very earliest Christmas film and seeing how things evolved...
There are crime dramas that want to comfort you with the idea that justice, eventually, wins. And then there’s Santosh, which calmly takes that idea, walks it out back, and buries it in a shallow...
