{"results":[{"title":"In Journey to the End of Time Alex Miller contemplates the mysterious gift of story","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-alex-miller_card-2.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/in-journey-to-the-end-of-time-alex-miller-contemplates-the-mysterious-gift-of-story","publisheddate":"2026-04-28","summary":"
Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most distinguished writers. He is the author of 14 novels and the winner of many literary prizes, including two Miles Franklin awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, though he has never gained the high public profile of, for example, Tom Keneally or Kate Grenville.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Fear is the aphrodisiac in Fiona Kelly McGregor's new novel The Trap","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-the-trap-review_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/fear-is-the-aphrodisiac-in-fiona-kelly-mcgregors-new-novel-the-trap","publisheddate":"2026-04-16","summary":"
Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap follows her successful novel Iris (2022), set in the criminal underworld of Sydney during the Great Depression.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Despairing at the state of the world? Ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/heraclitus-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling","publisheddate":"2026-04-07","summary":"
If you’re feeling fed up with the way things are in the world, then, no matter your politics, you are experiencing an emotion people have felt for millennia.","sxaTags":[{"title":"International"},{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"International relations"}]},{"title":"George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/george-eliot-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/george-eliot-is-best-known-for-middlemarch-but-she-also-wrote-an-early-work-of-science-fiction","publisheddate":"2026-03-30","summary":"
George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Martel's latest book descends into implausibility","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/papyrus-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/ancient-texts-and-marital-breakdown-martels-latest-book-descends-into-implausibility","publisheddate":"2026-03-26","summary":"
Son of Nobody is about a Canadian scholar named Harlow Donne who wins a one-year fellowship to go to Oxford to work on papyri with the eminent scholar Franklin Cubitt.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"Does The Bride! finally get Mary Shelley right on screen?","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-bride-of-frankenstein_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/does-the-bride-finally-get-mary-shelley-right-on-screen","publisheddate":"2026-03-24","summary":"
Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-greek-heads_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/how-to-live-a-long-and-healthy-life-according-to-the-ancients","publisheddate":"2026-03-04","summary":"
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Forrest Creative Fellowships announced","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/forrest-creatives-2026-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/forrest-creative-fellowships-announced","publisheddate":"2026-01-15","summary":"
A Sri Lankan-born Australian choreographer, performer and researcher and a Canadian writer, educator and filmmaker have been awarded 2026 Forrest Research Foundation Creative Fellowships. ","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Global Engagement"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Philanthropy"}]},{"title":"How the ancients invested in precious metals","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/roman-coins-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/how-the-ancients-invested-in-precious-metals","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
Like today, people in ancient times understood that investing money could help them consolidate and grow their wealth.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"How to party like an ancient Greek","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ai-statue-ancient-greek-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/how-to-party-like-an-ancient-greek","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
There were different types of parties in ancient Greece. Not all involved lots of alcohol and debauchery. Some featured moderate eating and drinking, and intellectual conversation.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]}]}