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Vladimir Nabokov merged writing and cinema, bringing the art forms together like no one before or since.
The late QC Jeremy Hutchinson only got away with it because the prosecution weren't quicker on the uptake.
There is a surprising degree of compassion in the narrative voices of this year's five shortlisted novels. They are a heart-warming selection.
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.
Students of the social and political sciences can benefit enormously from being taught literature, short stories and watching artistic feature films.
Works of fiction are brimming with economic principles, but perhaps none more so than the detective story.
There's a fierce debate underway about changing university curricula in Africa and the UK to be less Eurocentric. Three academics offer their suggestions for a decolonised reading list.
Readers of literary fiction are better placed to comprehend the complexity of social relationships and understand the mental…
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Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in History, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
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Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Harper College
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Professor of Contemporary Writings, Northumbria University, Newcastle
