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Only a small fraction of the world’s literature is ever translated. If AI could increase that, it would broaden access to diverse voices and ideas, enriching the global literary landscape.
Mozambique struggles to create a unified nation because of its diverse cultures, colonial history, socialism and globalisation.
Virginia Woolf found describing her childhood both an opportunity and a challenge.
Using examples from film and literature, Louks’s study explored how smell is used to discriminate against certain groups
These are the ten books that made the most lasting impression on our expert reviewers
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
Some 500,000 insect species are facing extinction. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose can help raise awareness of the essential roles these creatures play in our ecosystems.
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.
Travelling remains time-consuming, precarious, and shockingly dangerous for most South Africans 30 years after apartheid has ended.
Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes one element of a broader emotional and physical landscape.
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.
As the election nears, it seems everyone is afraid.
Gliff is set in a dystopian Britain – a kind of fairy tale of the future in which two children navigate a world which seems increasingly baffling and hostile.
Writing about huge monsters is one way of confronting the things that make us feel small and vulnerable.
Quiet horror prizes suspense and subtlety over graphic bodily violence.
While it is fair to say that Warhammer 40k has so far been underrepresented in science fiction circles, it seems the tide is finally starting to turn.
A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
There are now several crime novels that specifically reference the #MeToo movement.
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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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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University