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If characters on TV consumed less, research has found it can have an impact on the environmental behaviour of audiences
In a 1949 photograph, Mori works in his family’s nursery in San Leandro, Calif.
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On Dec. 2, 1941, a publication date was set for Mori’s first book. Five days later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, upending the writer’s life and throwing the book’s publication into doubt.
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A book that defies the usual mystery formula, Death on the Nile is more than just a clever tale about murder.
Activist Jack Monroe has used Terry Pratchett’s “boot theory” of poverty from his novels as part of her campaign to raise awareness.
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Fiction can influence society in dramatic and effective ways.
Ulysses is often written off as inaccessible but the epic is much more readable than most assume.
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It might seem a daunting task, but the trick is to not start reading from the beginning.
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By the standards of the day, Ulysses was extremely sexually explicit.
James Joyce was particular about the shade of blue that would grace the cover of Ulysses.
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An ode to his hero Homer? The act of a man losing his sight? What is the story behind the famous Ulysses blue.
Noel Pearson at a keynote address at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
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Mission, a series of Noel Pearson’s essays, speeches and eulogies, delves into many of the key parts of the author’s life and politics.
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Despite arguments that young children have enjoyed Jane Eyre for 150 years, the Victorians were much more concerned about the novel’s influence than universities are today.
Peter Dinklage’s Cyrano de Bergerac is missing the famous nose.
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There was a real man behind the swashbuckling hero who was as deft at sparring with his pen and sword as Rostand’s hero.
Why did she do all the work while Santa got all the glory? What would happen if she delivered the toys?
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Many early stories praise her work ethic and devotion. But with Mrs. Claus usually hitting the North Pole’s glass ceiling, some writers started to push back.
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Writing can help work through some of the emotions and boost wellbeing.
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (c. 1834).
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New research shows that literary relatives tend to share a similar writing style.
‘Moby-Dick’ inspired the Warner Brothers film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab – and perhaps can inspire readers today amid the climate crisis.
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Melville’s epic novel about life aboard a wayward whaling ship holds lessons for the climate crisis today.
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The bard’s plays were not always so readily available. It took a handful of savvy publishers to see the potential in publishing his plays.
Agricultural land and mountains alongside the railway line from Cape Town to Pretoria, South Africa.
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Damon Galgut joins a distinguished line of South African authors, who are grappling with the complex dynamics of the country’s white community in their writing.
Spanish authors (from left), Agustin Martinez, Jorge Diaz and Antonio Mercero, who have been writing bestsellers as Carmen Mola.
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A true hoax provokes. It questions cultural biases, shattering conventions. But the curious case of the three men writing as a female author Carmen Mola does none of this.
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A story about male violence and a damsel in distress, it is based on a true crime
Our sense of touch is actually lots of different senses rolled into one.
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Listen to The Conversation Weekly as we delve into the achievements behind three of the latest Nobel prizes.
Abdulrazak Gurnah captivatingly draws readers into the experiences and vivid lifeworlds of his characters
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s stories suggest that it is important to see others in relation to ourselves, to perceive their right of abode even if they cannot claim national belonging.