TASTE: Something Special #11
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 /...
“The illusion of immortality”: A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s A Photographic Memory is a very intimate investigation into the life of a globetrotting journalist (and photographer and filmmaker) whose interviews with legendary lensers...
World Mental Health Day: 5 reasons movies are good for our emotional wellbeing – according to science
Since 1992, World Mental Health Day has been commemorated on October 10 every year. It is an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), supported by the World Health Organization...
“I was prepared to be extra horrified, and I was not disappointed”: Love is Blind
Love Is Blind is horrifying. Of course I can’t stop watching it. If you’re familiar with my writing, you know I often like to point out that certain shows coded as “guilty pleasures” are...
Durga Puja festival: where it originated and how it’s celebrated
Simona Cosentino, Nottingham Trent University Every October, Kolkata, the “city of joy” and capital of West Bengal in India, lights up to celebrate Durga Puja. The festival is dedicated to the...
SEE: Something Special #10
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 bewitching, haunting experience”: Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Newport, Rhode Island 1903. The epilogue to Michael Cimino’s revisionist Western, Heaven’s Gate is an enigmatic affair set aboard an opulent yacht. You can practically taste the melancholy of the...
6 podcasts to escape from relentless US election coverage
Look, I know it's important. I know that whoever wins will have a disproportionate (and probably pretty awful) impact on the rest of us on this planet. But god, it really does go on and on. And even...
Is it a nude of your favorite actor or just AI again?
Scarlett Johansson's deep, feminine and sexy voice is known around the world. Now, the actress is one of the first major public figures to face a legal battle due to the peculiar and disturbing...
Africa’s baobab tree provides new ‘superfood’ but local harvesters struggle
Article credit: Voice of America Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family's staple corn...