The concept of sales "theory" or marketing "theory" is problematic. This is because these are really subsets of a broader microeconomic approach to the manipulation or creation of demand. The concept ...

About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has ...

Say “social work theory” to a cohort of social workers in training and you can almost hear the ensuing groans. This book takes the theory element and turns it on its head, providing a refreshing ...

“Artists used to think about art through art. Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint falls on deaf ears, as the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A book that uses literary post-structuralism as its main theme while playfully subverting the limitations of ...

Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia's most decorated authors, has won the 2025 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for her novel Theory & Practice. It's a case of third time lucky for the Sri Lankan-born ...