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In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
Two graphic novel biographies of Jane Austen offer alternate, but equally rewarding, ways of recounting her life’s work in fascinating visual styles.
Going to the Moon isn’t just about science. Novelist Jules Verne predicted some of the societal ramifications modern lunar missions are creating today.
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
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.
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.
George Eliot saw literature as uniquely capable of extending our sympathies, but her work engaged deeply with scientific questions too.
You could say it’s just a novel, so the implausibilities don’t matter, but the story is self-involved and contrived.
From serious villains to children’s book baddies, these literary mothers subvert every maternal instinct.
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.
Most people think originality comes from endless freedom. Dungeons & Dragons suggests the opposite.
Not since the first world war has there been anything approaching the quality and quantity of work by poets who are also combatants.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye explores the psychological fallout from a broken relationship and the human tendency to seek shelter in illusions.
We should not close ourselves off to the possibility that a fun, charismatic David Foster Wallace fan may theoretically exist, somewhere in the world.
This album stands as a musical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel in its own right.
The ‘vile’ side of humanity William Golding saw in World War II haunts his famous novel. He later came to dislike the book, dismissing it as ‘boring’ and ‘crude’.
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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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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