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Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.
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‘When people ask me about the “situation” in Iran: Locating ourselves and each other through the voices of the vatan’ by Marjon Mossammaparast
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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‘One bad day: Meditations on commodified flesh’ by Katherine Wilson
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May 28, 2026 |
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‘Too human: Shame, horror, aversion’ by Kevin Hart
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May 21, 2026 |
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‘Between reality and dreams’ by Sahar Rabah
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May 14, 2026 |
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‘Again and again: More poem than memoir’ by Jane Gleeson-White
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May 08, 2026 |
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‘Rethinking “on”: Sitting and listening to Wright’ by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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‘Progressive legalism in Australia’s High Court: How migration, aliens, and punishment cases reveal a distinct trend’ by Florence Honybun
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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‘“May today sink peace into your soul”: New scams in the literary world’ by Dennis Altman
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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‘Urgent compassion: Paying courageous attention’ by Felicity Plunkett
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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‘“Suppose I am wrong?”: On writers’ festivals, reassurance, calibration, and risk’ by Simon Tedeschi
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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‘Thinking in public: The vulpine poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe’ by Eleanor Spencer-Regan
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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'Roads to roads: Bathos of the ordinary' by Grace Roodenrys
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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'Lemmings over a cliff: On political and publishing expediency' by Joel Deane
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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‘When universities mattered: Higher education in a country addicted to the plough’ by Stephen Garton
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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‘Thought’s tempo: Essays that imagine otherwise’ by Mindy Gill
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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‘A truly probabilistic universe: One hundred years of heated debate and mind-bending physics’ by Sara Webb
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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‘Less an author than a milieu: Reading Shakespeare in the New World’ by Stuart Kells
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2026 Shortlist
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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'Carbon bomb: Business models based on climate catastrophe' by Stephen Long
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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‘Skewering AUKUS: A point-by-point account’ by James Curran
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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‘Liars, inventors, embroiderers: Rewriting the life and myth of Charmian Clift’ by Nadia Wheatley
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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‘Understand me now: Poetry which cuts into the work’ by Grace Roodenrys
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’ by Jessica Whyte
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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‘Carte blanche from me’: Volume two in a PM biography by Patrick Mullins
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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‘On so many levels: A sharp yet melancholic account’ by Clare Corbould
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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‘Limerence’ by Rachael Wenona Guy
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’ by Kate Fullagar
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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‘AI will kill us/save us: Hype and harm in the new economic order’ by Judith Bishop
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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‘Sediment’ by Tracey Slaughter
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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‘Albanese’s “Australian Way”: The rise of “progressive patriotism” and its complex past’ by Sean Scalmer
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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‘Deeper into darkness: Iran after the twelve-day war’ by Zoe Holman
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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‘“Come nearer to Asia”: Australia’s place at Bandung, 1955’ by Nathan Hollier
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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‘Shelling’ by Tara Sharman
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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‘“Without undue suffering”: Japan’s August 1945 and the superweapon alibi’ by Clinton Fernandes
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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‘Dogged pursuit: Australia’s “America first” policy’ by Marilyn Lake
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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‘Some undefined peace: Moving beyond “migrant writer”’ by Felicity Plunkett
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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‘Balance sheet blues: The pros and cons of Pax Americana coming to an end’ by James Curran
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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‘“Rejecting the system it created”: How Trump’s America is reshaping Australia’s regional relations’ by Rebecca Strating
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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‘A worse world: History from the future’ by André Dao
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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‘The Chirp/The Scream’ by Natasha Sholl, runner-up in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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‘Method and message: Rethinking Australian military history’ by Kate Fullagar
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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'Diary' by Peter Rose
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May 29, 2025 |
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'Eucharist' by 2025 Calibre Essay Prize winner Jeanette Mrozinski
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May 26, 2025 |
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'Little morality plays: Disingenuous angst over cancel culture' by Catriona Menzies-Pike
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May 06, 2025 |
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'Barefoot in the snow: Of poetics and papacy' by Miles Pattenden
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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‘“Congratulations Bob”: The Petrov Affair and the Australian public’ by Ebony Nilsson
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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'Attention, Please!' A Peter Rose Poetry Special
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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‘A Body of Water’, a short story by Else Fitzgerald
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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“Subject to his birth”: The biography of a prince' by Christopher Allen
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ by Matthew Lamb
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’ by Mark Finnane
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: Keeping up with Judith Wright’ by Georgina Arnott
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’ by Toby Davidson
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’ by James Ley
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’ by Jonathan Ricketson
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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‘Out of the loop: Relaying information across time’ by Robyn Arianrhod
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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'First Snow' by Kerry Greer | The Jolley Prize
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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'Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape' by Robyn Arianrhod
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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'Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia' by Georgina Arnott
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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'Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America' by Timothy J. Lynch
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’ by Nick Hordern
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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'Pascoe's vision: Musings on life and Country' by Seumas Spark
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Peter Rose reviews 'Hazzard and Harrower: The letters' edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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'Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse's battle to defend authors' by Matthew Lamb
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Natasha Sholl's 'Hold your nerve'
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Tony Hughes d’Aeth reviews On Kim Scott: Writers on writers by Tony Birch
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Tracey Slaughter's ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’
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May 23, 2024 |
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Scott Stephens reviews Crimes of the Cross by Anne Manne
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May 16, 2024 |
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Patrick Mullins reviews ‘Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics’ by Lech Blaine
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May 09, 2024 |
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Micheal Shmith reviews The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Gregory Day 'The Neighbour's Beans'
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Frank Bongiorno on how the Albanese government is travelling
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Sascha Morrell reviews 'Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths' by Mathew Lamb
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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'The Great Red Whale', an essay by Michael Winkler
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Scott Stephens reviews Kevin Hart's book on contemplation
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet by Nathan Hollier
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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'Sleepers', a short story by Cate Kennedy
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Stuart Kells reviews 'Alan Joyce and Qantas'
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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An essay on the lives of ‘ordinary’ migrants by Ebony Nilsson
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Kevin Foster reviews David McBride's whistleblower memoir
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Jan 25, 2024 |