The Thornbacks features ‘weird sisters’ whose reaction to being unloved is to make themselves unlovable to almost everyone – except each other.
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There’s an urgent question running through Bitter Honey. What does it mean to parent when your life has been violently derailed by structures beyond your control?
Gatsby has become more than just a novel, but instead an exploration of what literature can mean.
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux after the first world war.
The trauma plot, and its exploration of the depths of victimhood and suffering, has been the novel’s passport to notoriety.
The Netflix series ‘3 Body Problem’ is based on Liu Cixin’s scifi novel that follows what happens to the alien residents of a planet that orbits two stars.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
A social chronicler and prolific journalist as well as a fiction writer, Colette provided a highly original woman’s perspective on life in stultifying patriarchal times.
Victory City marks a return for Rushdie, who has not set a novel substantially on the Indian subcontinent for over a decade.
Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Evelyn Waugh’s outrageous third novel was controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect.
Canada’s immigration system should accept our chosen families and unconventional forms of love, such as friends with deep bonds.
Pure Colour confirms Sheila Heti as one of the most inventive, searching, scintillating and mind-bending writers working today.
Literary fiction is robust enough to withstand the challenges the 21st century throws at it.
Far from grasping at Cold War certainties, Le Carré’s Smiley embraces the changing role of the British spy.
Astronomer Bryan Gaensler picks five speculative and science fiction novels worth reading, including Omar El Akkad’s American War.
Author and activist Arundhati Roy proves once again that she is a passionate voice of dissent in a nation that’s tilting towards authoritarianism.
Leo Zeilig’s novel features a superbly crafted cast of characters. It’s a page turner for readers interested in the profound questions of radical politics and humanity.
The protagonist in the novel ‘The Silent Minaret’ gets us to question that powerful political-cultural myth of being tied to nation. That is a remarkable achievement in fiction.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
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Associate Professor of English, State University of New York Oswego
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Associate Fellow in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Assistant Professor in History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Professor of French, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Contemporary Writings, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Literature and Migration, University of Bristol
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton University
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PhD candidate, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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Professor of English, John Carroll University