Books
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What Americans Can Learn From Their Isolationist Past
Kupchan seeks to do just that in his new book. We present here two timely excerpts. Charles A. Kupchan The…
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Why we must raise a generation of readers
It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. Lorraine Levis The…
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Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes review – ancient misogyny
For the past few years, Natalie Haynes has been building a career out of rescuing the women of the ancient…
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Global Bookmark
And by dragging Marx, kicking and screaming, back into the Rhinish Jewish community that shaped him, Avineri yields new insights…
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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the…
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Odyssey to Freedom
Categorized into seven parts, Odyssey to Freedom takes the reader through a journey of history, struggle, and human emotion. Valentino…
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Exposing the ways we try to hide our inner selves
It made perfect sense. Nicole Abade Good Weekend in The Sydney Morning Herald I loved reading and language, and my…
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From the Archives, 1990: Australian literary giant Patrick White dies
Patrick White dies, aged 78; an era is over. Staff writers WA Today Patrick White, the author, died at his…
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Why Trent Dalton needed to ‘run a mile’ from his hit debut novel
It seems many aren’t quite ready to let go of Dalton’s heartfelt semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, which became Australia’s fastest-selling debut…
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How Spanish writer’s novel about Eta terror campaign became global hit
Towards the end of Patria, Fernando Aramburu’s sprawling examination of the human cost of Eta’s four-decade-long terror campaign, a character…
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Hilary Mantel ‘naturally disappointed’ by Booker Prize miss
The British novelist was a favourite to win the major literary prize – which she claimed with Wolf Hall in…
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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time…
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New book ‘Atlas of Extinct Countries’ explores the places that fell off the map
Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. Barry Neild CNN Travel They no longer…
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Elena Ferrante has a new novel, but is the fever still running high?
There are the sentences that never seem to end; the language charged with carnality; the Naples that is dark yet…
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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi review – a painfully invisible existence
Akwaeke Emezi’s Women’s prize-longlisted debut Freshwater was narrated by the multiple selves inhabiting a young Nigerian woman who was born with “one foot on…
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Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers review – slavery and the British empire
You are trapped in a net cast by a white man reeking of rum and smoke, and then dragged miles…
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