Storytelling can be an effective way to impart lessons in science.
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Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Fractals emerge on Day 4 of Suri’s playful Genesis-inspired narrative about math’s role in creation.
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A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.
Polites traces Honour’s journey from her village scented with pine trees to suburban Australia.
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God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
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A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception – Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos (1638–1711).
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Some fairy tales tell the brutal truth, others offer the hope of a happy ending. Immaculate raises the possibility of both.
Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot.
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Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
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Cecilia Rabess’s controversial debut novel explores race, politics and love in the time of Trump.
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Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
Two people walking through the destruction from the August 6 detonation of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, September 8, 1945.
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A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Dolly Maunder.
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Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
Detail from The Dog – Francisco Goya (c.1820).
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The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
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Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
Belshazzar’s Feast – Rembrandt (c.1636).
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Jen Craig’s new novel Wall confirms she is an ambitious writer in the best sense: she wants to convey deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world.
Elizabeth Gilbert at the European premiere of Eat, Pray, Love, London, September 2010.
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to cancel the publication of her latest novel needs to be understood in the context of a long history of symbolic protest.
McCarthy attends the 2009 premiere of the film adaptation of his novel ‘The Road.’
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
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Cormac McCarthy, who has died aged 89, was a major American writer with a distinctive voice. In McCarthy’s world, war and violence are primordial realities.
Prague skyline (August 2021).
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Call Me Marlowe is a cosmopolitan novel that that challenges our commitments to national stories.
Rufus Sewell as Will Ladislaw and Juliet Aubrey as Dorothea Brooke in the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch (1994)
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In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.
The shortlisted books.
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Reflecting on themes as diverse as motherhood, war, religion and memory, our experts were impressed by the 2023 shortlist.
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In her latest novel, Emma Cline depicts a world of unthinking privilege.