In her Netflix series, Vladimir, Julia May Jonas attempts to tame the slippery characters and weighty themes in her novel. That’s a pity.
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Summer reading can mean anything you want it to – from a crime or romance novel to a fat classic you didn’t have time for during the year. What will you read?
Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her Booker longlisted debut is a novel about money. But it’s most interesting when it explores the gap between our imagined selves and what our actions reveal.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
Marijane Meaker was a lesbian pulp fiction trailblazer who wrote bestselling YA fiction as M.E. Kerr. She was also Patricia Highsmith’s lover.
The lack of a collective memory of university education and the student experience presents a serious problem in Australian life.
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Adelaide University
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Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne