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I’d read it before but this time I found Captain Ahab more disturbed – and disturbing
Many readers have expanded their ambitions in these times of social isolation, disappearing into books that have previously beaten them.
Tolstoy’s War and Peace is mentioned often, along with Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy.
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In an ambitious, hilarious, clever beast of a novel, Chris Flynn excavates the strange fascination powerful men have for big pets
A story of man’s self-destructive impulse to conquer nature and about American exceptionalism, with detours through Napoleonic France and the end of the Irish rebellion in 1801 … narrated by a 13,000-year-old fossilised mammoth?
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Entrenched unemployment? A permanent embrace of work from home? Several orthodoxies have emerged about the near future of employment
This is the first in our series on Life after lockdown, which looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic could change Australia for good
As Australia surveys the labour market wreckage of almost two months of pandemic-inspired physical isolation, several orthodoxies have emerged about the way we will work when the restrictions are eventually lifted.