From the Lighthouse
By MQ English
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From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
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Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective: An Interview with Kelly Gardiner
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Revelation Beach - An Interview with Susan Francis
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Bright Sword: An Interview with Lev Grossman
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Joans of Arc Worldwide: An Interview with Ellie Crookes
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Chloe Adams' The Occupation Book Launch
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Lost Origins: An Interview with Chris Kulp
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory: An Interview with Yaroslav Barsukov
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Master of Alternate History: An Interview with Harry Turtledove
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Other Side of Daylight: An Interview with David Brooks
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The Comic and Tragicomic Poetry of Francis Webb
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Apollo Rising: An Interview with Celebrated Author and Former NASA Astrophysicist Alan Smale
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Film Review: The Substance
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Old West Romance: An Interview with Amy Matthews
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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The Temperature: An Interview with Katerina Gibson
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Always Will Be: An Interview with Mykaela Saunders
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Daisy and Woolf: An Interview with Michelle Cahill
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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The Story Thief: An Interview with Kyra Geddes
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May 12, 2024 |
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Friendship as Contest: Interview with Dr Neil Durrant on Nietzsche and Friendship
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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MQ PACE: Michelle Council interviews Clémence Michallon about The Quiet Tenant
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Interview with Dr Adrian Renzo and Dr Liz Guiffre on the Princess of Pop - Kylie Minogue
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Cast Mates: Interview with Sam Twyford-Moore
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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MQ PACE Indigenous Australian Fiction: Kate Milne on Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms & Song of the Crocodile
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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MQ PACE Indigenous Australian Fiction: Jasmine Oke on Enclave
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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MQ PACE Indigenous Australian Fiction: Annie Paterson on The Old Lie
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Interview with Clint Caward on Love Machine
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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175th Anniversary of Jane Eyre
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Interview with Bruna Gomes on Poetry
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Interview with Kim Kelly on The Rat Catcher
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Ned Bukarica interviews Emma Batchelor
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May 24, 2022 |
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Interview with Tessa Lunney on Writing Historical Fiction
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May 03, 2022 |
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Queer Readers Read Queer YA Romances
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: Indigenous Futurism (Terra Nullius and The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: The #MeToo Movement in Fiction (The Nowhere Girls and Queenie)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: The Dystopian Bush (When We Are Invisible and Tomorrow When the War Began)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: Interview with Alice Pung on One Hundred Days
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: Interview with Stuart Everly-Wilson on Low Expectations
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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MQ Student Writers‘ Festival: Queer YA Fiction (Henry Hamlet’s Heart and Perfect On Paper)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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The Power of Little Worlds: Interview with Michelle Cahill
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Observing Loneliness: Kazuo Ishiguro‘s Klara and the Sun
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Japanese Boys Love, Thai Boys Love, and K-Pop: An Interview with Dr Thomas Baudinette
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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To Gaze or not to Gaze: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: John Keats & Bright Star with Dr Geoffrey Payne
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: Richard III & Looking for Richard with Dr Stephanie Russo
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: The Poetry of T.S Eliot with Assoc. Prof. Paul Sheehan
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: Jane Austen's Emma with Dr Stephanie Russo
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: The Truman Show with Dr Ryan Twomey
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: The Tempest and Hag-Seed with Professor Louise d'Arcens
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: The Crucible with Assoc. Prof. Paul Sheehan
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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HSC Enrichment Session: The Poetry of Kenneth Slessor with Professor Louise d'Arcens
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Creative Writing Mastercl: Conversation with Felicity Castagna hosted by Assoc. Prof. Hsu-Ming Teo
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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The Wandering: An Interview with Intan Paramaditha
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May 18, 2021 |
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Does My Head Look Big in This? Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah
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May 04, 2021 |
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Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko: A Tale of Fire and Ice
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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The Bored and the Beautiful - Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Page Richards on the changing states and stakes of literary fiction in contemporary times
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Before Shackleton there was Ursula K. Le Guin's "Sur"
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Graham Greene's 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road' and Paddy OReilly's 'Baggage Claim'
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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"The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the daughter": Love and Destruction in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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The Relentlessness of Memory in Michael Haneke's Caché
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #6: Get Over It
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #5: She's All That
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #4: Easy A
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #3: Clueless ... As if!!!
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May 26, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #2: She's the Man
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May 14, 2020 |
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Classic Teendaptation #1: 10 Things I Hate About You
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Macbeth: The Enduring Appeal of Shakespeare's Scottish Play
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Comfort Texts for a Brave New World
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Double Indemnity: THE Film Noir
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Complex, The Ambiguous and the Inexplicable
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Duality, Puppetry, and Podling Rights in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Best Books of 2019
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Love it or Hate it? The New BBC/Netflix Dracula
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Noir Files #1: Laura - The Unknowable Femme Fatale
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Might as well face it, we'll always be addicted to true crime
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Interview with Diana Plater on travel writing
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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MQ English Department's International Masters students
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The Quarry Issue #15 Zoographia
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Interview with Diana Plater on her first novel, Whale Rock
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, aka The Gothic Charms of a Sassy Witch
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Titus Andronicus: A Bloody Mess or a Subversive Mess?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Brilliant, smart, surprising, dirty ... but enough about me, let's talk about Fleabag
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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#crusoeat300 and the Strange Life and Works of Daniel Defoe
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Might as well face it, we're still addicted to true crime
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Sara-Mae Tuson and Heyer Today
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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1819: An Extraordinarily Prolific Year for Keats
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: A Reference to Bundy or the Netflix Film?
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Finale: The Rant is Long and Full of Terrors
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Interview with Ellie Crookes on Guinevere and Arthurian Literature
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May 21, 2019 |
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Interview with Xu Daozhi on Indigenous Cultural Capital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children's Literature
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May 07, 2019 |
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Might as well face it, we're addicted to true crime
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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In love with the shape of you: An Interview with Lee Kofman
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Mary Queen of Scots and the Enduring Appeal of Tudor Queens
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Jenna Guillaume's What I Like About Me: A Daggy Caravan Park Romance
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Interview with Laura Neill, Editor for The Quarry Journal Issue 13
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Best Books of 2018 (re-uploaded)
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Beloved and Controversial: The Works of Enid Blyton
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Milne's The Red House Mystery: A non-Pooh Bear Detective Story
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Lois Austen-Leigh's The Incredible Crime aka the grossness of hunting
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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A Christmas Carol: or the Case of the Misunderstood Capitalist
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 3: Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 2: New Perspectives on Frankenstein
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 1: Revisiting Frankenstein
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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A Sensational Book: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Femme Fatales, Marlowe and Gangsters: The (slightly) Nonsensical Plots of Chandler's The Big Sleep
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Murderers, Truth vs. Fiction, and a car full of snakes in Truman Capote's "The Handcarved Coffins"
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Meredith Lake's The Bible in Australia: A fascinating history of the part the Bible played in shaping Australia
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Pinballs and Boiling Frogs: An interview with Australian feminist playwright Alison Lyssa
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Lexi Freiman's Inappropriation
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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The Myth, the Heights, the Poetry and the Dogs: 200 Years of Emily Bronte
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Trauma and the Possibility of Change: An Interview with Meera Atkinson
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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From the Filmhouse with Stephanie and Kirstin: Reviewing Mary Shelley (2018)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo with Tiana Visnjic
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair with Alison Key
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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How do you solve a problem like Junot Diaz?
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode - IASPR Interview with Jodi McAlister
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode - Interview with IASPR Keynote Speakers
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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From Raptus to Porn: Celebrating 675 Years of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees with Jeremy Nigro
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Jane Austen's Emma with Alice Kouzmenko
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman with Rebecca McMartin
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Kate Rossmanith: Small Wrongs: Remorse and the criminal justice system
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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The Life and Death of Christopher Marlowe
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May 29, 2018 |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: or The Golden State Killer's Walk into the Light
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May 16, 2018 |
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SWF 2018 - Our Top Picks
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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A WoMAN of no Importance: 125 Years of Comedy, Tragedy and Confusing Aestheticism
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal: The Works of Jeanette Winterson
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Hamlet: The Indecisively Complicated Prince of Denmark
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Medicine, Literature, Interceptionality, and Literary Gate-Keeping: An Interview with Michelle Cahill
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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The Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlist Show
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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Handsome, Clever, Rich and Bored: The Mixed Blessings of Jane Austen's Emma
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Generation Women: Suvi Derkenne on the Importance of Women's Voices
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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Netflix's adaption of Atwood's Alias Grace: It may be binge-worthy but is it rant-worthy?
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Valentine's Day Special: The Wretched Cant of Love
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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The Benefits of Rejection Goals: A Discussion with Ashley Kalagian Blunt
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Creative Writing Alumna Claire Catacouzinos' Tips for Young Writers
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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Special Event: A Day of Literature, Music & Culture at M on the Bund
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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The Life of a Creative Mind: A Discussion with Associate Professor Marcelle Freiman
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that you need not have an excuse to pod about Pride and Prejudice
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet of Poets
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Best Books of 2017
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Sing, O Muse, of the books we loathe: Literary Confessions pt. 1
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Elf, Rudolph, Mannequin Mom, Mr Hanky, and the Osmonds - it must be the Christmas Show!
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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The Novel and the Navy: Celebrating 200 Years of Jane Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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On Speedy Death and the Golden Age of Gladys Mitchell
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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The Power of Love, or Why We Read Romance Novels
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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A Killer Obsession: The Latest Adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Murder, they Spoke: The Rise of True Crime Podcasts and Documentaries
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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How Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea has Ruined Mr. Rochester Forever
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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A Time for Lear: The Rise in Popularity of Shakespeare's King Lear
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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20 Years a Slay: A Celebration of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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The Spoooooky Halloween Show
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Nobel World
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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The 2017 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Show
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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A Pain in the Neck: Celebrating 125 Years of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Men Know Best but Women Know Better: The Ever-Lasting Appeal of George Eliot's Middlemarch
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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A 300 Year Old Goth: Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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The 2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist Show
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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From Former Student to New York Times Bestseller: Liane Moriarty and Big Little Lies
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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A Kindred Spirit: The World of Anne of Green Gables
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Francis Webb: The Best Australian Poet You've Never Heard Of
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Romance Heroes, Dog Sidekicks and Beau Brummell: The Regency Romance Novels of Georgette Heyer
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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You know nothing, HBO: Medievalism, and the racial and sexual politics of Game of Thrones
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Remembering Jane: Is Austen really, "the greatest novelist the world has ever seen"?
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Jul 17, 2017 |
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25 Years later and we're still Looking for Alibrandi
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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S-Town: Stories of Time and Madness
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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13 Reasons Why: An Exploration of Suicide or Revenge?
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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Congress for Cultural Freedom or: How the CIA Fought the Cold War by Focusing on Literature
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May 24, 2017 |
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Harry Potter and the Silent Intertexts
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May 10, 2017 |
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SWF - Our Top Festival Picks
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May 03, 2017 |
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The Handmaid's Tale : Offred the Unman of Atwood's Dystopic Future or the woMan of Today's Feminist Nightmare
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Two Contemporary American Novels: The Sellout and The Underground Railroad
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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We Need to Talk About Eurus: A Critique/Defence of BBC's Sherlock
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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Best Books of 2016
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Feb 01, 2017 |