A novel about a women trying to write about Gertrude Stein and also the art of creating.
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Two graphic novel biographies of Jane Austen offer alternate, but equally rewarding, ways of recounting her life’s work in fascinating visual styles.
This film offers an invitation to return and reflect on Camus’ work.
For a decade the architect Albert Speer enjoyed a unique position as courtier and protege to Adolf Hitler. A new novel examines the man, and his lies.
The Testaments has to resolve the plot dilemmas established in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Book science helps decipher and preserve fragile manuscripts, at a moment when climate change and mass digitization are reshaping cultural heritage work.
Visions of environmental disaster are shaping world literature.
Shōtarō Ikenami’s newly translated novel is steeped in mystery, legend and the tensions of blood kin.
Many more authors may be using AI undetected.
Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.
A British take on an American classic, an absurdist video podcast, stories of displacement, a buggy nightmare and a book about an obsessive friendship.
We live in an age where our houses are more full of stuff than ever. Death cleaning is an act of love that helps makes things for those you leave behind a lot easier
For 75 years, the red-and-black–striped troublemaker Dennis the Menace has been delighting children with his unapologetic mischief.
Has our culture’s begrudging acceptance of ghostwriting paved the way for everyone – not just the rich and famous – to offload the hard work of writing?
We asked 5 literary experts what they were reading in the 90s – and why their pick stayed with them.
From serious villains to children’s book baddies, these literary mothers subvert every maternal instinct.
The short book makes a powerful statement about how authoritarianism begins in the household.
The story of five women who flee the violent patriarchal structures in search of a feminist utopia.
Silence would mean accepting and surrendering to the Taliban’s power, writes one of these authors. Theirs are the voices of resistance.
For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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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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