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.
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A social chronicler and prolific journalist as well as a fiction writer, Colette provided a highly original woman’s perspective on life in stultifying patriarchal times.
Salman Rushdie pictured before the attack of 2022.
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Victory City marks a return for Rushdie, who has not set a novel substantially on the Indian subcontinent for over a decade.
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Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Evelyn Waugh.
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Evelyn Waugh’s outrageous third novel was controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect.
IRCC should rethink how to protect our chosen families and value the interdependence inherent to couples as much as the independence cherished in friendship.
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Canada’s immigration system should accept our chosen families and unconventional forms of love, such as friends with deep bonds.
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Pure Colour confirms Sheila Heti as one of the most inventive, searching, scintillating and mind-bending writers working today.
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Literary fiction is robust enough to withstand the challenges the 21st century throws at it.
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Far from grasping at Cold War certainties, Le Carré’s Smiley embraces the changing role of the British spy.
Former Globe and Mail newspaper reporter turned novelist Omar El Akkad contemplates his debut book American War in his publisher’s Toronto office in this 2017 file photo.
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Astronomer Bryan Gaensler picks five speculative and science fiction novels worth reading, including Omar El Akkad’s American War.
Arundhati Roy, in 2010.
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Author and activist Arundhati Roy proves once again that she is a passionate voice of dissent in a nation that’s tilting towards authoritarianism.
Leo Zeilig’s latest novel is set in the Robert Mugabe-ruled Zimbabwe.
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Leo Zeilig’s novel features a superbly crafted cast of characters. It’s a page turner for readers interested in the profound questions of radical politics and humanity.
Cover of The Silent Minaret.
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The protagonist in the novel ‘The Silent Minaret’ gets us to question that powerful political-cultural myth of being tied to nation. That is a remarkable achievement in fiction.
Portrait of Miriam Tlali as part of Adrian Steirn’s 21 Icons South Africa project. Date: 15.10.2014.
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A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.