The dire social and political landscape of Sadeq Hedayat’s time contributed to the existential despair and pessimism of his writing.
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‘If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?’
Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.
Reading poetry can be a daunting affair. In Australian Poetry Month, an expert shows us how one poem works – and what it reveals.
A Sydney librarian recently discovered a misfiled lost gem in the stacks: Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her first novel, with handwritten notes for revision. An expert explores what they tell us.
For Franz Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney