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In Kairos, a relationship between a young woman and an older married man captures the difficulties and ambivalences of German reunification.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.
God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.
Some fairy tales tell the brutal truth, others offer the hope of a happy ending. Immaculate raises the possibility of both.
Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
Cecilia Rabess’s controversial debut novel explores race, politics and love in the time of Trump.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
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.
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’s decision to cancel the publication of her latest novel needs to be understood in the context of a long history of symbolic protest.
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.
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.
Call Me Marlowe is a cosmopolitan novel that that challenges our commitments to national stories.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
