A romance writer’s bizarre fake death has gone viral. That her being alive stayed undetected for 2.5 years reminds us that our online and published personas are still separate from real life.
- Associate Professor in English Literatures, University of Wollongong
Sometimes books have such a pervasive cultural presence that it is always necessary to read them to have an idea about what they have to say.
In the fraught debate over trigger warnings in the university classroom, they are routinely associated with censorship and silencing. Yet for teachers, they can open up a discussion of difficult material – not suppress it.
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