Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on simplistic characterisations.
- PhD candidate, English Literature, Australian National University
Was the premature death of Shakespeare’s only son really the inspiration for Hamlet?
Cultural historian Clair Wills reflects on the secret cousin born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, which at one point had a morality rate of 75% – and her family’s complicity in a national tragedy.
Donor conception, surrogacy, artificial womb technologies … a new book delves into how families are changing.
Maggie O'Farrell’s homage to The Yellow Wallpaper inhabits a ‘difficult’ young woman who survives tragedy in colonial India and is incarcerated by her family for refusing gender and social norms.
Anna Funder’s new book, Wifedom, is a meditation on the insidious nature of patriarchy. Funder draws parallels between our #metoo era and the time of George Orwell and his wife Eileen.
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