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Apr 5
โIt is almost impossible for anything to be genuinely new.โ
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When everything around us falls apart, love still finds a way to survive. ๐๐ฏ๏ธ๐น
@edgaryrr curates 8 novels where love endures war, repression, and collapse โ Hemingway, Kundera, Hosseini, Hamid, Nรฉmirovsky, Adichie, Ishiguro, Ondaatje. โจ
Full guide ๐
globalcomment.com/novels-8-lโฆ
#BookRecommendations
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Jun 12
We're halfway through 2026 โ and K-dramas have been on fire. ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฐ๐ท
@carolinaarperiodista picks the 6 must-watch K-dramas of the year so far:
๐ฅ Bloodhounds S2
๐ฆธ The WONDERfools
๐ฅ We Are All Trying Here
๐ Perfect Crown (IU & Byeon Woo-seok!)
โ๏ธ Teach You A Lesson
๐ป Phantom Lawyer
Full guide ๐
globalcomment.com/the-6-mustโฆ
#KDrama
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Jun 11
A short book. A revolutionary idea. A work of profound optimism. ๐๐ฟโจ
@PhilippaWrites on Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry โ the follow-up to Braiding Sweetgrass, and a book that makes the case for reciprocity over scarcity. ๐ซ๐ฑ
"We may not be able to overthrow capitalism tomorrow."
Full review ๐
globalcomment.com/the-servicโฆ
#TheServiceberry #BookReview
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Jun 10
For 40 years, Iranian women filmmakers have used cinema as resistance. ๐ฌโ๐ฎ๐ท
Miniature Malekpour curates 7 essential films on Iranian women's fight for freedom โ from the 1979 Revolution to Woman, Life, Freedom. ๐ฏ๏ธ
"The fight for freedom isn't metaphorical."
Full feature via @ConversationEDU ๐
globalcomment.com/7-films-toโฆ
#WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini
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Jun 9
The world is difficult right now โ and traditions like this feel more important than ever. ๐๐โจ
This week's Something Special read: Zinara Rathnayake (@zinararathnayake) for @BBCTravel on dansal โ Sri Lanka's beautiful roadside ritual of giving food, rice, and care to complete strangers. ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐คฒ
Full pick ๐
globalcomment.com/read-sometโฆ
#Dansal #SriLanka
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Jun 8
When colour stopped being decoration and started being a language. ๐จ๐ฌ๐
Kate Lillie on Technicolor's golden age โ through The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, and Singin' in the Rain. ๐ฉฐโฐ๏ธโ
"Colour wasn't simply a technical innovation, but rather a new language."
Full essay ๐
globalcomment.com/technicoloโฆ
#Technicolor #FilmHistory
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Jun 5
Endless yellow corridors. Fluorescent dread. The architecture of the algorithm. ๐ก๐ช๐๏ธ
Mark Farnsworth on @A24's Backrooms โ the debut feature from 20-year-old Kane Parsons, and a horror that reads our online corridors as echo chambers consuming "our integrity and dignity one dead end at a time." ๐
Full review ๐
globalcomment.com/a-netherwoโฆ
#Backrooms #A24
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Jun 4
Stranger Things meets Parks and Rec โ and somehow, it really works. ๐๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ธ
@nataliaantonova on @AppleTV's Widow's Bay โ Matthew Rhys as the bumbling mayor of a cursed island. Genuine evil bureaucratic infighting = one of the most surprising shows of the year. โ๐ป
Full review ๐
globalcomment.com/widows-bayโฆ
#WidowsBay #FolkHorror
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Jun 1
5 shows. 5 worlds. 1 unmissable month. ๐ฌโจ
๐ผ Not Suitable for Work โ June 2 (@hulu)
๐ช Cape Fear โ June 5 (@AppleTV)
๐ House of the Dragon S3 โ June 21 (@hbomax)
๐ The Bear S5 (final) โ June 25
๐ช๏ธ Avatar: The Last Airbender S2 โ June 25 (@netflix)
Which one first? ๐
Full guide ๐
globalcomment.com/the-best-tโฆ
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May 25
Ten years on, The Neon Demon still feels too beautiful to look at. ๐บ๐ฉธโจ
Mark Farnsworth revisits Nicolas Winding Refn's divisive 2016 horror (with Elle Fanning) a decade on โ part satire, part nightmare, part prophecy. ๐ช๐ฅ
Full retrospective ๐
globalcomment.com/too-beautiโฆ
#TheNeonDemon #HorrorMovies
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May 21
Alex Cooperโs pregnancy announcement sparked more than headlines. It opened a wider conversation about fame, reinvention, and growing up online. ๐ค
Read more on Global Comment:
Global Comment article
#AlexCooper #CallHerDaddy #DaddyGang
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May 19
Eight tentacles, vivid colour, and the perfect post-Remarkably Bright Creatures pick. ๐๐จ๐
This week's Something Special pick: the gorgeous octopus painting by artist Vicki Elder (@thefoxintheforest on IG). ๐ฟ๐๏ธ
Full pick ๐
globalcomment.com/see-somethโฆ
#OctopusArt #SomethingSpecial
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May 15
Six shows, six families, one excuse to gather everyone on the couch this May 15. ๐บ๐
For International Day of Families, Carolina Alvarado R. picks the heartwarming TV worth watching โ from Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair to Modern Family, Sweet Magnolias to Anne With an E. ๐ฟ
Full guide ๐
globalcomment.com/essential-โฆ
#InternationalDayOfFamilies
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May 13
Six novels. Six countries. One of the most exciting Booker shortlists in years. ๐๐โจ
๐ A meta-fictional Taiwan travelogue
๐ก๏ธ An Albanian sworn virgin shapeshifting to survive
๐ฎ A failed modern witch
โ๏ธ A brutal Brazilian penal colony
๐ An Iranian family across four decades and four narrators
๐ฌ A filmmaker compromised by the Nazis
Reviewed by 6 literary experts on GlobalComment.com ๐
Which one are you reading first? ๐๐
#InternationalBookerPrize #BookerPrize2026 #BookTok #TranslatedFiction #BookRecommendations #LiteraryFiction #WorldLiterature #BookishCommunity #FYP #Bookstagram #ReadInTranslation #GlobalComment
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May 12
Beneath our feet, fungi hold the world together. ๐๐โจ
This week's Something Special pick: a fascinating listen with pioneering Chilean mycologist @giulifungi, founder of the @fungifoundation โ guaranteed to expand how you see fungi, and the natural world. ๐ฟ๐ง
Full pick ๐
globalcomment.com/listen-somโฆ
#Fungi #Mycology
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May 11
The radical art of paying attention. ๐ฌโจ
Kate Lillie on Italian Neorealism โ through Rome, Open City and Umberto D. โ and the post-war movement that reshaped what cinema chose to dignify. ๐ฎ๐น๐ฝ๏ธ
"Neorealism is less about realism in a literal sense, and more about attention."
Full essay ๐
globalcomment.com/italian-neโฆ
#FilmHistory
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May 11
5 action movies set to DOMINATE May 2026 ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฅ
๐ฅ Mortal Kombat II โ May 8
๐ The Punisher: One Last Kill โ May 12 (@disneyplus)
๐ด๏ธ In the Grey (@guyritchie) โ May 15
๐งฌ Colony (Yeon Sang-ho) โ May 21
โ๏ธ The Mandalorian and Grogu (@starwars) โ May 22
Which one are you watching first? ๐ฟ
Full guide ๐
globalcomment.com/from-mortaโฆ
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May 6
A 1000-acre escape where water meets woodland meets meadow โ and the soul gets a little softer. ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฆ
@PhilippaWrites visits Rutland Water Nature Reserve: ospreys, butterflies, friendly "Men With Gear," plus a thoughtful look at disabled access. โฟ
Full review ๐
globalcomment.com/did-wonderโฆ
#RutlandWater #UKNature
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May 5
When communities come together, beautiful things can bloom โ literally. ๐ธ๐ฟ
This week's Something Special pick: @midtownbramble, whose work turns shared streets into living, flowering spaces. A small, lovely Monday reset. ๐ท
Read it ๐ globalcomment.com/watch-someโฆ
#SomethingSpecial #CommunityBlooming
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May 4
Mary Wollstonecraft โ far more than the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. ๐โจ
Novelist. Travel writer. Children's author. Translator. A new essay by Aditi Upmanyu (@UniofOxford) traces the radical range of her literary work.
Originally on @ConversationUK
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#MaryWollstonecraft #FeministHistory #WomenWriters
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