Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
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The demands on the company are extremely high.
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
André Dao has kept the legacy of his grandparents alive in Anam, a brilliant novel of immense scope that became a full quest for the truth of his family history, which spans the two Vietnam Wars.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
Edwina Preston pays tribute to the humble letter: from literary love letters to philosophical lessons to cherished family heirlooms. Letters impart lessons, reveal character – and are a form of art.
Australia Post is losing hundreds of millions of dollars on letters delivery. People just don’t need a daily postal service like they used to.
A photo beamed via a satellite from a smartphone is never the same as the description of a place the lover must try hard to imagine.
He was the poet who asked, ‘Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life?’ but new evidence suggests Larkin was proud of his library job.
Kate Grenville suggests we read Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters as ‘a wonderful piece of fiction, sustained over sixty years’. They were exercises in doubleness, concealment, and delicious irony.
The letter Z has become a controversial pro-Russian symbol during the war in Ukraine.
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child.
As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled abroad – where many had their first encounters with the marine predators.
The written word has guided us through distance from our loved ones for centuries. Here’s how it can bring us closer
Doubt can be uncomfortable. It is often tempting to jump to conclusions. But Keats counsels otherwise.
Dickens worried for the safety of his sons when diphtheria broke out in France and - in a newly discovered letter - wrote about how the truth was difficult to find.
190 years after her birth, Dickinson’s life reminds us of how to confront the depths of loss with courage and hope.
While the man the world knows as ‘Papa’ balanced the demands of parenting with his work, his letters and fiction offer a window into the depth of his paternal feeling.
During our current bout of collective trauma, many of our coping strategies have mimicked the ways Americans responded to the Kennedy assassination.
Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ or Émile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse!’?
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Professor of English, North Carolina State University
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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PhD Student in History, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer and Senior Digital Learning Developer, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Penn State
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Deputy CEO, Regional Australia Institute
