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SEE: Something Special #78 – Tracey Emin in the Guardian

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 / see / taste / place. It will be something...

Global Comment’s Book Club: February 2026

With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month's Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings together novels with female protagonists who make...

Trainspotting 30 years later: 10 surprising facts about a cult classic

Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink into a pit of heroin and betrayal, burst onto UK...

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