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All of Austen’s leading men are rich, which certainly helps to intensify their charms. But that’s not everything.
Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.
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.
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.
Max Porter’s stories of people on the margins are told in fragments, flickering images, surprising swirls of language and wit.
The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.
There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.
Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.
For Austen’s heroines, independence often begins on foot.
Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.
The professor of literature and crime novelist will be in London on July 11 for a special Q&A on his new novel – with appropriate food and drink available.
Nineteen Eighty-Four filled with references to sinking ships, drowning people and the dread of oceanic engulfment
Young writers in Germany are challenging one-dimensional stereotypes about Jewish and Muslim identities.
Ed was never afraid to speak or to write about his own queer life, and the queer lives of others.
In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. Some used their imaginations to fill in what the blurry images couldn’t convey.
In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.
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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