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What do we love when we love books by dead authors?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageIn reading, we feel ourselves able to get up close and personal with a dead author.glassghost

It was the first tutorial of the semester. The course was on American literature and film. The room was full of MacBook-toting undergraduates with the bright-eyed wariness that is the natural correlative to the first encounters of undergraduate seminars.

I...

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We need to protect the fossil heritage on our doorstep

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageA prehistoric scene showing ancient penguins, elephant seals and giant marsupials. A rich diversity of both marine and land creatures once lived at Beaumaris, Melbourne, about 7 million years ago.Peter Trusler, Monash University

From about the age of eight onwards I regularly collected fossils from around the beach area on the Beaumaris foreshore...

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