Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.
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Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Moreover, although virtually unseen at the time, technological advances were beginning to unlock the oil lodged in very dense shale rocks, something that petroleum textbooks had previously said was commercially impossible.
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Daniel Yergin,
Time,
20 June 2026
Many private lenders cap borrowing at the cost of attendance (minus, including tuition, room and board and textbooks (minus other aid).
Chicken, bacon, and ranch might as well be the holy trio that squashes all fights and satisfies every hangry complaint.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 Mar. 2026
Calling the deal off also squashes a host of questions Netflix insiders had about how HBO and Netflix would realistically co-exist in the same company, another staffer said.
The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
27 June 2026
Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
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