Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Most people had little call to know of University of Sydney poetry professor Barry Spurr until a series of his emails were ...

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Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also ...

From Shakespeare to Milton to Nabokov, the world's most enduring books are being tackled by famed graphic novelists in a three-volume set. The Western literary canon has long been debated and ...

The Age of Criticism, Martin Amis once wrote, started in 1948 and ended with OPEC. That is, it started with the publication of F.R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition – the book that, more than any other, ...