The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.
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Disaster recovery isn’t just about repairing bridges, roads and homes. Conservationists from the Smithsonian were on the ground in North Carolina helping families piece their lives back together.
From politics to environment, here are five books published in 2024 for all sorts of readers
These are the ten books that made the most lasting impression on our expert reviewers
Moving through Thomas’s experiences of her body, we increasingly see how fatphobia shapes her life.
Thought-provoking reads for the critical thinker on your gift list. Each book connects with a past Don’t Call Me Resilient episode. Listen alongside reading to bring the scholar & their ideas to life.
New novel The City and its Uncertain Walls gives its two narrators different words for “I” in Japanese – a nuance that is difficult to translate to English.
Reading can change the brain.
New, tech-driven developments, including new imprints by Microsoft and BookTok’s ByteDance, promise to make book publishing faster and more efficient. But what’s lost in the process?
By looking at how it is represented in works of fiction, we can try to understand how we relate to soil. And through soil, how we relate to the environment more broadly.
The controversy is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict interfering with the world of Canadian letters, but also reveals antagonistic ideas about literature’s social role.
The care the authors have taken in collating such a rich and complex history of queer photography is frequently moving.
World Without End is a hugely impressive feat, unfolding as a dialogue between its creators.
Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish.
Reading rates in Australia are falling – and price might be less of a factor than we think. We look at how Australia compares internationally, and what other countries are doing to boost reading.
Robin Wall Kimmerer envisions an economy of gratitude and reciprocity with nature, using the serviceberry tree as a key witness.
The generation that found comfort in the Girls in Love series as teens are likely to find the same comfort as adults in the fifth instalment.
A slim but searing novel about an international group of people living on the International Space Station.
Wheeler’s debut comes to feel less like a novel and more like a 400-page Instagram reel.
From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, Aston University
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Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
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Dean of Research (Creative), Adelaide University
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University