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 /...
This month’s reading selections offer a small literary journey through landscapes. In these novels, natural settings play a prominent role and accompany the development of the stories, whether...
International Mother Earth Day, celebrated every April 22, reminds us of the historical debt we owe to the planet. Established by the UN in 2009, this day confronts us with a world wounded by the...
If you’re following U.S. foreign policy - whether with a sense of amusement, fear, scorn, or whatever it is you want to feel - you might have noticed allegations in the press that the Pentagon...
The question of the place for human creativity in today’s algorithm-driven world has become unavoidable. In this context, doubts arise that no longer belong solely to the realms of philosophy or...
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 /...
This month over at Five Books For I’ve been looking at classics in translation, and while there are plenty of options from around the world to explore, one that is closer to home - for me at least...
The Secret Agent is an elegiac, surreal, brutal yet hopeful, study of Brazil’s collective memory of life under the military dictatorship in the 1970s. The dreamlike fluidity of writer/director...
After a three-year wait, adrenaline and boxing return to Netflix with the second season of Bloodhounds (사냥개들). Based on Jeong Chan’s acclaimed webtoon, this seven-episode season (each...
I resisted watching Love Story for a long time. The reaction of the Kennedy family and many other friends of John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy to the TV series put me off. The view of...
