His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
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Despite dire warnings of a ‘postliterate’ generation, data suggests Gen Z is still reading – just in ways many traditional studies fail to capture.
Getting lost in a book is now regarded as an enriching experience – but a few hundred years ago, reading novels was considered a corrupting force.
These expert recommendations are short enough to tear through over a weekend
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.
The Oscar-nominated film about Shakespeare’s son explores how men and women mourn differently – and how ‘Hamlet’ may have transformed a father’s private sorrow into enduring art.
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.
Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
A round up of the best novels of the year.
It has been a major year for Stephen King films.
Many of Cooper’s depictions of sex are very funny. However, there is a clear message throughout.
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?
Three recent developments in AI – in video games, wearable technology and education – suggest that building something like Stephenson’s Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is possible.
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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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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