Climate fiction is a type of storytelling that imagines how climate change could shape our world.
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The trauma plot, and its exploration of the depths of victimhood and suffering, has been the novel’s passport to notoriety.
Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.
There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.
Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding us how to truly see nature.
For 50% of people I surveyed, poetry had helped with anxiety and depression during COVID.
Despite the absurd or humorous surface nature of the stories, there is a profundity to the collection that lies just below the surface.
Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
Several libraries in the ancient world blended learning and books with memorials to their sponsors.
These poems express the wonder and complexities of romantic love.
New research looking at how Australians read for recreation has shaped 10 tailored tactics to help you read more based on whatever is getting in your way.
There has been a growing recognition that psychology, as a discipline, must engage more deeply with local contexts.
Life stages, ageing and creativity are important themes in Atonement.
Compendium of the Occult is handsomely bound, pleasingly laid out and beautifully illustrated.
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.
The Brutalist now has ten Oscar nominations. We asked a real architect to review the film.
Lawrence convinced himself that the periodic haemorrhages he suffered were associated with his bronchial tubes rather than his lungs.
Forster composed most of this novel in a flurry of concentrated activity while the world was emerging, traumatised, from a global influenza pandemic.
This series offers insightful new ways to think about and interpret classic books and artworks.
Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of dystopian fiction simply become a part of everyday life.
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