Many of Cooper’s depictions of sex are very funny. However, there is a clear message throughout.
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Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?
Three recent developments in AI – in video games, wearable technology and education – suggest that building something like Stephenson’s Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is possible.
In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.
Set in a fictionalised Bristol, William explores the pressures of class, gender and modernity.
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux after the first world war.
The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of the abolitionists.
Until now, the glamorous spy has existed in many different forms across many different mediums. Could a new, more coherent universe be on the horizon?
Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.
Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.
Our Evenings is concerned with people who try to fit in, but whose experience of British life is marginal, whether on account of class, race or sexuality.
E.M. Forster’s motto was “only connect”. But what if the colonised and the coloniser cannot understand each other in any way?
These are the ten books that made the most lasting impression on our expert reviewers
Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes one element of a broader emotional and physical landscape.
No Church in the Wild is an ambitious novel that traverses cultures and institutions, and prompts readers to question their values.
In its bankruptcy filing, the Romance Writers of America blamed ‘disputes concerning diversity, equity and inclusion’ for its membership declining by an astounding 80%.
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
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Tutor in Publishing, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, University of Hull
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Senior Lecturer, Literature and Screen Studies, Federation University Australia
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Associate Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures, Keele University
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz