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Literary podcasts offer comfort, convenience and the ultimate distraction. Here’s a taste – including author interviews, deep dives into classic novels and critiques of self-help blockbusters.
Maggie O'Farrell’s homage to The Yellow Wallpaper inhabits a ‘difficult’ young woman who survives tragedy in colonial India and is incarcerated by her family for refusing gender and social norms.
Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
With an election on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to curl up with one of our expert recommendations.
These books had our academics gripped until their final pages.
In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
Scholars who study disparities in early care and education answer five questions about Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program.
The publication 25 years ago of The Ethical Slut shattered social norms and stigma about non-monogamy. It’s now sold over 200,000 copies – and continues to be important.
The tale lamenting the loss of a mythical British upper class is as sharp now as ever.
Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
From dubious guests of honour from oppressive states to allowing far-right publishers to show, Frankfurt Book Fair’s political stances have been all over the place.
Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Dark academia novels romanticise student life, but their stories of friendship are inspiring.
This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
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