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UOW’s new Liberal Arts Major to foster critical thinkers for a complex future
From 2026, students across all faculties can study this new major in critical thinking, within an exciting small-cohort environment
Arts and Culture
From Lahore to Sydney, a Muslim feminist’s debut novel rebels against the suffocation of safety
The genre of migrant autofiction, especially coming-of-age work, is blooming, but Raaza Jamshed’s book stands out.
Arts and Culture
A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching
Davis addresses all the big-ticket concerns of our time: artificial intelligence, ecological disaster, societal decay, colonial culpability and overconsumption
Arts and Culture
Contemporary crime fiction has moved beyond conventional genre tropes
Just don’t call it ‘literary’
Arts and Culture
A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town
In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live
Arts and Culture
Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ
Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed