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Recent studies suggest the mind of a bee is far more sophisticated than once believed 🐝🧠 📚 Review: The Mind of a Bee – @LChittka (@PrincetonUPress) "I for one am looking at the world a little differently with that in mind." @ElizaJMiddo @Sydney_Uni https://t.co/m6DXOEGFY1

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📚 The Philosophy of Modern Song – Bob Dylan, Folk Music – Greil Marcus Dream sequences with the feel of AI-generated prose, grumpy-old-man-isms, and a cracking playlist – Dylan constantly rewrites the national songbook, writes @MccooeyDavid (@Deakin). https://t.co/Kwz5jFA7Gr

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Margeurite Duras’ The Lover (1984), a fictionalised account of a teenage affair with a much older Chinese man, has been criticised as a kind of retro-Orientalist Lolita. 📚 According to Anthony Macris (@UTSEngage), that does her iconic novel an injustice. https://t.co/o9Y4C5h3sB

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Jean-Luc Godard has died, aged 91. This titan of French film had a career of immense creativity, which redefined the grammar of cinema. Ben McCann from @UniofAdelaide looks back at his industry journey that began as a young critic. https://t.co/Wfz0jf6Al3

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One of the most influential works of African American modernism, Jean Toomer’s novel is a highly symbolic visionary masterpiece. 📚 "For a book that defined its era, Cane feels equally at home in our time," writes @AveryTamlyn (@UQ_News). https://t.co/FXwpKcm4kc

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📚 August Blue – Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton) Set in our pandemic-era present, 'August Blue' contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. According to Jane Gleeson-White (@UNSW), she "read it like a thriller". https://t.co/IJGiIjVVYh

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In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities. 📚 'Unravelling' her characters invites readers to examine their resemblances + divergences, writes Helen Groth (@UNSW). https://t.co/5tYptGHGvT

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📚 Wall – Jen Craig (Puncher & Wattmann) Jen Craig's new novel confirms that she one of Australia’s most interesting living novelists. She conveys deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world, writes Emmett Stinson (@UTAS_). https://t.co/yeIMUOkteZ

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Pierre Hadot sees philosophy as a guide to improving contemporary lives. 📖 As Matthew Sharpe (@Deakin) writes, Philosophy as a Way of Life' encourages contemporary readers to apply ancient philosophical ideas to everyday life. It is a life-changing book. https://t.co/YOM1i6T0I3

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📚 Review: Survival of the Richest – Douglas Rushkoff (@scribepub) According to @tomdoig (@UQ_News), the book is less about tech billionaires and their ‘bonkers’ escape plans than it is an entertaining primer on the various ills of late capitalism. https://t.co/mwckIAcwqC