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Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
Sensationalism is ingrained in any conversation about abortion because the issue has long stood in for the country’s deepest fears.
In an interview, scholar Alyssa Collins explains how her time spent plumbing the sci fi writer’s papers left her stunned by the breadth of her interests and the depth of her scientific knowledge.
Even though Afrofuturist works are set in fictional worlds, they provide a blueprint for social, political and economic systems free from exploitation and oppression.
What happens when a writer asks us to consider the perspective of the perpetrator rather than the victim?
The tragedy of Macbeth issues a warning for our times about the harm that is done when the desire for power drowns out the inner voice of conscience.
Old women remain the butt of jokes; they are some of society’s most marginalised people. But age also invites us to become our most authentic selves, writes Carol Lefevre.
It is one of Dickens’ best loved novels and an exposé of the class system, but the book’s depiction of women has proved divisive.
This brainy feminist romp of a novel, loved by Rachel Cusk and Maria Semple, is often compared to Brideshead Revisited. But Carol Lefevre says it’s more like a sexy, sweary version of Nancy Mitford in 1960s London.
Literary texts are useful for environmental communication and can deal with the complexity of climate change.
Marrying the husband of your deceased sister was legally considered incest, leaving women of all classes in ruinous circumstances.
In her new essay collection, Elena Ferrante tells the compelling story of her reading and writing life, and the battle between form and wildness.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
The unique power of story is like a sharp knife, writes Claire Corbett. It is neither good nor evil, but can cut both ways.
If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see.
Straight from our experts, here are five books to help you understand what’s happening right now in Ukraine and Russia, from a must-read history of Ukraine to a literary classic with insights into the Russian soul.
A mermaid with face of a monkey and body of fish has reignited interest in the Japanese ningyo
The Nobel Laureate’s new experimental epic is a masterful account of the life of a self-proclaimed Messiah.
Coal-mining communities are disappearing in the UK so it’s more important than ever to authentically document their way of life.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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