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Fictional, magical cities can help us understand our own urban lives.
Listening to other people's dreams can help to improve your empathy levels.
Our relationships with characters from books and screen – called parasocial relationships – serve many of the same functions as our friendships with real people, minus the infection risks.
A new book, which weaves fiction into the origin story of the Oxford English Dictionary, was declared a hit even before its release. Readers will judge whether it lives up to the hype.
Pandemic fiction is more popular than ever – but what these books and movies offer us isn't as straightforward as you might think.
Mantel's prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.
Bonfire Night keeps the flames of division burning.
Short story cycles can satisfying a reader's need for deeper engagement and Rebekah Clarkson's Barking Dog is a great example.
Our responsibility to consider how the future might look for generations to come requires imagination.
Science fiction writing often serves as a thought experiment that explores shared and hidden beliefs whose material and political reverberations lie further in the future.
The author has returned to Gilead, 35 years after the original novel was published.
Status anxiety and conspicuous consumption generate a dazzling, often surreal poetry in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. But Gatsby’s rise and fall exposes deep fissures underlying the American Dream.
We shouldn't assume that discussion of bodily changes necessarily means progression towards a more equal society.
It's one of the largest prison escapes in world history and it's through fiction we can understand the tragedy, from both an Australian and Japanese perspective.
This prize confirms Melissa Lucashenko's status as one of Australia’s top writers of contemporary fiction.
Each novel in this list is profoundly empathetic, and deeply attuned to contemporary Australia.
Catch 22 as seen by George Clooney is just far too good looking.
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.
The archetype can be traced back to 1920s detective fiction, when gruff, gun-toting, cigarette-smoking mavericks became heroic figures.
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Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Professor of Writing, University of Technology Sydney
