The tale lamenting the loss of a mythical British upper class is as sharp now as ever.
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Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
From dubious guests of honour from oppressive states to allowing far-right publishers to show, Frankfurt Book Fair’s political stances have been all over the place.
Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Dark academia novels romanticise student life, but their stories of friendship are inspiring.
This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.
Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
Adapting to our fiery future means preparing for the risks and not putting out every low-risk wildfire, writes the author of a new book on learning to live with fire.
You stayed up all night to make a Book Week costume – but now your child won’t wear it. In fact they don’t want to go at all. Here are some ideas to try.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
Distinct from civil disobedience, this legal strategy demands complete compliance with the law – even when there are loopholes that the laws’ creators didn’t intend.
The power of storytelling to help inform our decisions is underappreciated and of vital importance in envisioning a better future, and the steps to take to get us there.
Media outlets increasingly construct narratives about collective reality based on what’s happening on social media.
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