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“It is almost impossible for anything to be genuinely new.”

Do you agree?

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Endless yellow corridors. Fluorescent dread. The architecture of the algorithm. 🟡🚪👁️

Mark Farnsworth on @A24's Backrooms — 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." 🌀

Full review 👇

https://t.co/KT09TnkgOH

#Backrooms #A24

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Stranger Things meets Parks and Rec — and somehow, it really works. 🏝️🕯️🍸
@nataliaantonova on @AppleTV's Widow's Bay — Matthew Rhys as the bumbling mayor of a cursed island. Genuine evil + bureaucratic infighting = one of the most surprising shows of the year. ⚓👻
Full review 👇
https://t.co/ce8YQjqIfp
#WidowsBay #FolkHorror

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5 shows. 5 worlds. 1 unmissable month. 🎬✨
💼 Not Suitable for Work — June 2 (@hulu)
🔪 Cape Fear — June 5 (@AppleTV)
🐉 House of the Dragon S3 — June 21 (@hbomax)
🍝 The Bear S5 (final) — June 25
🌪️ Avatar: The Last Airbender S2 — June 25 (@netflix)
Which one first? 👀
Full guide 👇
https://t.co/3gcz1fnZYa

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Ten years on, The Neon Demon still feels too beautiful to look at. 🔺🩸✨
Mark Farnsworth revisits Nicolas Winding Refn's divisive 2016 horror (with Elle Fanning) a decade on — part satire, part nightmare, part prophecy. 🪞🔥
Full retrospective 👇

https://t.co/8QqKwE2nWd

#TheNeonDemon #HorrorMovies

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Alex Cooper’s pregnancy announcement sparked more than headlines. It opened a wider conversation about fame, reinvention, and growing up online. 🤍

Read more on Global Comment:
Global Comment article

#AlexCooper #CallHerDaddy #DaddyGang

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Eight tentacles, vivid colour, and the perfect post-Remarkably Bright Creatures pick. 🐙🎨💙
This week's Something Special pick: the gorgeous octopus painting by artist Vicki Elder (@thefoxintheforest on IG). 🌿🖌️
Full pick 👇
https://t.co/cfaYdMTM2g
#OctopusArt #SomethingSpecial

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Six shows, six families, one excuse to gather everyone on the couch this May 15. 📺💛

For International Day of Families, Carolina Alvarado R. picks the heartwarming TV worth watching — from Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair to Modern Family, Sweet Magnolias to Anne With an E. 🍿
Full guide 👇

https://t.co/y0g6NFGO92

#InternationalDayOfFamilies

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Six novels. Six countries. One of the most exciting Booker shortlists in years. 📚🌍✨
🍜 A meta-fictional Taiwan travelogue
🗡️ An Albanian sworn virgin shapeshifting to survive
🔮 A failed modern witch
⛓️ A brutal Brazilian penal colony
🌙 An Iranian family across four decades and four narrators
🎬 A filmmaker compromised by the Nazis
Reviewed by 6 literary experts on https://t.co/kg1J5I3s7y 🔗
Which one are you reading first? 👀📖
#InternationalBookerPrize #BookerPrize2026 #BookTok #TranslatedFiction #BookRecommendations #LiteraryFiction #WorldLiterature #BookishCommunity #FYP #Bookstagram #ReadInTranslation #GlobalComment

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Beneath our feet, fungi hold the world together. 🍄🌍✨
This week's Something Special pick: a fascinating listen with pioneering Chilean mycologist @giulifungi, founder of the @fungifoundation — guaranteed to expand how you see fungi, and the natural world. 🌿🎧
Full pick 👇
https://t.co/mefs1rZXBJ
#Fungi #Mycology

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The radical art of paying attention. 🎬✨
Kate Lillie on Italian Neorealism — through Rome, Open City and Umberto D. — and the post-war movement that reshaped what cinema chose to dignify. 🇮🇹📽️

"Neorealism is less about realism in a literal sense, and more about attention."

Full essay 👇
https://t.co/BLKkDqglFi
#FilmHistory

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5 action movies set to DOMINATE May 2026 🎬💥🔥
🥋 Mortal Kombat II — May 8
💀 The Punisher: One Last Kill — May 12 (@disneyplus)
🕴️ In the Grey (@guyritchie) — May 15
🧬 Colony (Yeon Sang-ho) — May 21
⚔️ The Mandalorian and Grogu (@starwars) — May 22
Which one are you watching first? 🍿
Full guide 👇
https://t.co/tZAvT3SktS

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A 1000-acre escape where water meets woodland meets meadow — and the soul gets a little softer. 🌿🦆🦋
@PhilippaWrites visits Rutland Water Nature Reserve: ospreys, butterflies, friendly "Men With Gear," plus a thoughtful look at disabled access. ♿
Full review 👇
https://t.co/jkptElaPAa
#RutlandWater #UKNature

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When communities come together, beautiful things can bloom — literally. 🌸🌿
This week's Something Special pick: @midtownbramble, whose work turns shared streets into living, flowering spaces. A small, lovely Monday reset. 🌷
Read it 👇 https://t.co/hgBooOTNRd
#SomethingSpecial #CommunityBlooming

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Mary Wollstonecraft — far more than the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 📚✨

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

👇 https://t.co/o8J1WYQ4Yd
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#MaryWollstonecraft #FeministHistory #WomenWriters

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As humans, we are movement. 💃🕺✨

For International Dance Day, 7 online performances reshaping dance for the screen — from @redbulldance films to @AlvinAileyDance in NYC streets and flamenco under open sky. 🎬🌍

Full feature by Edgary Rodríguez R. 👇

https://t.co/G6yWPjvOvu
#InternationalDanceDay #DanceDay

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What would be on your list of brilliant things? ✨📝
Every Brilliant Thing — the small, fourth-wall-free play about depression, love, and the tiny reasons we keep going. Recently performed by @DanielRadcliffe, with @MariskaHargitay coming next. 🎭💛
Full feature by Edgary Rodríguez R. 👇
https://t.co/2bDpS02yOf

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The female body has long existed between expression and explanation.

In this episode of Listen, Something Special, art meets science to explore how perception and power shape representation.

Explore how art reveals and science defines — read the full feature: https://t.co/LUhyu5XtEz

@thegreatwomenartists @KatyHessel

#ArtAndScience #TheGreatWomenArtists #Podcast #CulturalCommentary

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Three books. Three unforgettable stories. Three landscapes that shape every page.

This month, Global Comment's Book Club takes you on literary journeys through landscapes. From the sweeping grasslands of nineteenth-century New Zealand in In the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the rugged Pacific Crest Trail in Wild, to the haunting marshes of North Carolina in Where the Crawdads Sing, these books reveal worlds where nature is more than a backdrop — it's a force that shapes destinies.

If you love stories where setting becomes character, these reads will pull you in.

By By Edgary Rodríguez R. Discover more about each book and why they still matter today — read the full feature on

https://t.co/9V6njOZxyV

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6 Mexican documentaries for International Mother Earth Day 🌎🎬

Drought-shaped villages. Poisoned rivers. Hidden aquifers. Wildlife on the edge.

From El Eco on MUBI to Resurrección on Prime — cinema that turns the climate crisis into human stories.

Full guide by Carolina Alvarado R. 👇
https://t.co/oLyEc8iGvs

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"This is a book written in blood, and it deserves to be read and re-read. Today especially." 🗡️🕯️

Natalia Antonova on Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires — a gorgeous, grisly horror novel set during the Black Death, and more relevant than ever.
Full review 👇

https://t.co/QlEaeOLrkM

✍️ @buehlmeister
📝 @NataliaAntonova