Reading fiction can increase your empathy and reading fiction translated from another language can improve your cross-cultural understanding. Why not let a book transport you?
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Fifty years after her death, Australian writer Charmian Clift is experiencing a renaissance. With her forward-thinking columns, Clift's voice rose above the crowd during post-war Australia.
When it comes to reading, choosing the books your child reads, forcing them to read at certain times and asking them questions about their books are all big no nos.
Ryan O'Neill's book reimagines a classic Australian short story. He retells The Drover's Wife 99 times in various forms, including a poem, an Amazon review, and even as a Cosmo quiz.
Gothic texts are not all bloodsucking vampires and howling werewolves. An Australian Gothic tradition took root alongside colonisation, influencing writers from Marcus Clarke to Alexis Wright.
At the centre of the novel Coach Fitz is Tom, an anti-hero whose unintentionally humorous voice drives the narrative. Tom is an awkward everyman, a naïve Don Quixote, a digressive Tristam Shandy.
The omniscient narrator is alive and well in fiction. Kim Scott's most recent novel uses a collective narrative voice that encompasses the landscape as well as the human.
In her fragmentary family memoir, Cynthia Banham interweaves narratives of war and migration with her own traumatic plane crash - ultimately reclaiming her identity in the process.
Les Murray's signature style was a potent mix of ordinary language, specialist vocabulary, and eccentric syntax. His poetry made us see things anew.
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to the uncertainty of the Industrial Revolution.
A legal expert looks at the issue of robot rights and what makes us human.
Debut memoir The Erratics possesses a rare honesty, exploding socially sanctioned ideas about mothers and families.
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
Here’s to the good/bad women leading the world of fiction.
An emerging genre of fiction in France is providing an unlikely brand of escapism.
Forget challenges, adults should be taking a leaf out of children's books when it comes to their reading habits.
Sharing a book together doesn't stop being important once a child learns to read.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
Here is a small list of pivotal texts by African American women from the past century.
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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Jane Messer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
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Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
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Professor, UCL
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Academic Sessional, Victoria University
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Professor in English Literature, University of Liverpool
