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Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban

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The Gamilaroi journalist and presenter on fame, reconciliation and how studying at Oxford changed the way she thinks about people in power

Young adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s

Any attempt at recreating the contours of personal memory against the landscape of a nation’s historical journey is a daunting task for any chronicler. Even more challenging is the interweaving of an individual life into the tapestry of seven-and-a-half decades of national experience – a task that often calls for…

Not everything that sounds right is true. And far from everything that sounds fake is false. Reality is—quite often—stranger than fiction.

First known such ‘pamflyt’ in English has contemporary resonance, with advice on food intolerances and eating cheese after a meal

Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt

From breakthrough habits to beach-worthy thrillers, these summer reads will help you refocus your mind or blissfully forget what day it is.

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it