19+ hour, 57+ min ago   (144+ words) All is fair – including head trauma and magical realism – in love. In Every Possible Way By Alicia Thompson Berkley, 400 pages It is also undeniably sexy. I looked back at my copy for this review, to see if there were any…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (797+ words) ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias’ Preaches Radical Pessimism at the End of the World bookandfilmglobe.com Sophie Fiennes’ third and likely final collaboration with Zizek sees the 77-year-old at his most political — and earnest Following the end credits of The…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (190+ words) At the Venice Film Festival, Paul Schrader Wrestles with Free Will and Determinism Warning: This review contains spoilers. In his latest film, The Basics of Philosophy, Schrader interrogates this eternal drama through the eyes of Dr. John Jorissen (Jack Huston),…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (182+ words) Loss drives the protagonists to Antarctica and an alternate universe It’s been a long torturous road for 37-year-old Chloe Benjamin who is releasing her third novel after eight years of radio silence. Under Story is an astoundingly imaginative and immersive…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (135+ words) Book and Film Globe From Emily St. John Mandel to Chloe Benjamin; Ayad Akhtar to Marlon Benjamin; Tom Clancy to Jared Diamond September is traditionally when publishers begin rolling out their biggest books of the year, and 2026 is no exception....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (285+ words) A young Alfred Lord Tennyson spent decades trying to resolve science and God The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief By Richard Holmes Pantheon; 448 pages In In Memoriam No. 54, Tennyson writes: That nothing walks with aimless…...