PLACE: Something Special #12
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 /...
Great Adaptations: Wuthering Heights on screen
This month over at Five Books For, we're discussing gothic-ish classics, given that it's October. I know lots of us go in for reading or watching something spooky around this time of year in honour...
In praise of mushy peas, the underrated northern delicacy
There's something profoundly comforting about a dollop of mushy peas squeezed onto the plate next to your pie, or in a Styrofoam pot with your chippy tea. Often dismissed by food snobs as some kind...
Book Bytes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review
We are really thrilled to have a new series on Global Comment, Book Bytes, where we will review books in a short video format. This first instalment has Nasser Ali Khasawneh talking about how...
An effective but flawed grief drama: His Three Daughters review
Chamber pieces are films with a small cast and they are primarily set in a singular location, generally, with limited budgets. Often times those limitations can be felt in the repetitiveness of...
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...