In ‘The Givers,’ author David Callahan warns that today’s mega-rich philanthropists wield too much political clout. He may be exaggerating their power and lowballing the public’s own strength.
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Conventional wisdom says we need industrial agriculture to feed the world. Not so, says geologist David Montgomery: Practices that focus on creating healthy soil can transform agriculture.
James Patterson – one of the world’s bestselling authors – may not principally be a writer.
The conditions for originality in a piece of writing.
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at “right angles to reality”, asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.
Children’s literature may be a modern genre, but there is a long history of writing for children with some surprisingly unchanging elements.
Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
Research shows that providing children with eReading devices can actually inhibit their reading.
The way writers drew on electricity to weave their stories tells us much about the history of electricity itself.
Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one.
Alternative facts owe more to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than Orwell’s 1984.
Bookplates showed wealth, personality, status – and a sense of humour.
The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
Hunter S Thompson’s 1971 book is a torpedo ride through some of the strangest scenes in American fact, or fiction. It’s about greed, the souring of ‘60s idealism, the failings of journalism and much more.
What stories can teach children about the world.
If all you know of Northern Ireland is the turmoil of political institutions, you could do worse than to pick up some of the recent flux in women’s fiction.
‘Autofiction’ has an important role to play in this new post-truth world.
In celebration of academic books.
Virginia Woolf’s archive can be seen as a serious resource for research into the experience of hearing voices.
Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Monash University
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Professor, University of Stavanger
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of New England
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
