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Jane Austen’s novels work a romantic alchemy, and travel is their catalyst.
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
The winner is down to you!
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
In the internet age, all that is solid melts into data. This includes the work of authors, songwriters and artists, ostensibly protected by the law of copyright.
All of Austen’s leading men are rich, which certainly helps to intensify their charms. But that’s not everything.
Bookshelves as decor were trends in the 19th and 20th-centuries, too. So were book-of-the-month clubs and popular media on books. They helped make reading popular.
Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.
Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.
Heading back to school can be a stressful time for kids and adults. Here are five evidence-based books that can help you cope with anxiety and stress.
Like the confines of a mining ship in deep space, the plot of an Austen novel is less small than it is dense and claustrophobic.
Odysseus is one of ancient literature’s most complex figures.
Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?
The popular genre depicts gay male sex, but it is written by heterosexual women for heterosexual women.
Romanticism centred on the idealisation of human freedom in all its forms.
The Lionesses are defending their title, new thoughts on art and clothing and exhibitions on the sea and the Edwardians.
Few philosophers have dedicated time to thinking about clothes. This compelling book explains why they should.
This was a remarkable event because it defied the tired cliché that Africans do not read.
In her new book, Akinkugbe explores the way art history is taught, and the exclusion of blackness from mainstream art spaces.
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