The ABR podcast

1
'Little morality plays: Disingenuous angst over cancel culture' by Catriona Menzies-Pike 9:57

4 napja9:57

9:57

This week, on the ABR Podcast, Catriona Menzies-Pike reviews The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub. Menzies-Pike examines Daub’s claim that fear of cancel culture is a US export – as ubiquitous as McDonald’s and Kentucky bourbon. She writes: ‘Cancel culture is now everywhere … What Daub does in this book is trace the origins of the cancel culture panic, registering its defining contradictions.’ Catriona Menzies-Pike was the Editor of the Sydney Review of Books between 2015 and 2023 and was awarded the Pascall Prize for arts criticism in 2023. Here is Catriona Menzies-Pike with ‘Little morality plays: Disingenuous angst over cancel culture’, published in the April issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
'Barefoot in the snow: Of poetics and papacy' by Miles Pattenden 11:10

29 napja11:10

11:10

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Miles Pattenden reviews Hope: The autobiography by Pope Francis. It is not every day that a pope writes a tell-all. Pattenden explains: ‘Of Pope Francis’s predecessors, only that preening Renaissance man of letters Pius II Piccolomini contributed to the genre directly.’ Miles Pattenden specialises in the history of the Catholic Church and his books include Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa. Here is Miles Pattenden with ‘Barefoot in the snow: Of poetics and papacy’, published in the April issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘“Congratulations Bob”: The Petrov Affair and the Australian public’ by Ebony Nilsson 17:32

7 weeks17:32

17:32

This week on The ABR Podcast, Ebony Nilsson unearths the letters that Robert Menzies received from the Australian public during the 1950s Petrov Affair. Letters included everything from warnings to exhalations of relief to expressions of concern for the Petrovs’ dog. Ebony Nilsson is a historian of migration and security during the Cold War and the author of Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West . Listen to ‘“Congratulations Bob”: The Petrov Affair and the Australian public’, published in the March issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
'Attention, Please!' A Peter Rose Poetry Special 1:12:49

8 weeks1:12:49

1:12:49

This week on The ABR Podcast, we bring you a special poetry feature. With Editor Peter Rose’s imminent departure from Australian Book Review and the publication this month of his seventh poetry collection, Attention, Please! (Pitt Street Poetry), eighteen poets and critics read from Peter Rose’s extensive body of work, dating back to 1990. Readers include Sarah Holland-Batt, Lisa Gorton, John Kinsella, Felicity Plunkett, Morag Fraser, Geoff Page, John Hawke, and Peter Rose himself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘A Body of Water’, a short story by Else Fitzgerald 18:17

10 weeks18:17

18:17

This week on The ABR Podcast we feature a short story from the ABR Archive. The story, ‘A Body of Water’ by Else Fitzgerald, was commended in the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. It opens in the desolate, quiet space of a former steel town on the Franklin River. Fitzgerald writes: ‘The town hunkers on the southernmost tip of a cruel spit of land stretching down into the Bite, surrounded by the cold ocean.’ Listen to Else Fitzgerald with ‘A Body of Water’, first published in ABR in 2012 and now part of ABR ’s extensive digital archive going back to 1978 – all available to subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
“Subject to his birth”: The biography of a prince' by Christopher Allen 9:00

11 weeks9:00

9:00

This week on The ABR Podcast, Christopher Allen reviews James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects by Alexander Edward Gilly. James Fairfax, who was born in 1933 and died in 2017, was born into the ‘greatest press dynasty Australia had yet seen’. Christopher Allen is the national art critic for The Australian . Listen to Christopher Allen’s ‘“Subject to his birth”: The biography of a prince’, published in the January-February issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn 33:18

12 weeks33:18

33:18

This week on The ABR Podcast we feature a short story from the ABR archive. The story, ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’ by S.J. Finn, was commended in the 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. (The 2025 Jolley Short Story Prize is now open!) S.J. Finn is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. Listen to ‘ Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head ’, first published in ABR in 2018 and now part of ABR ’s extensive digital archive going back to 1978. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ by Matthew Lamb 10:53

13 weeks10:53

10:53

This week on The ABR Podcast , Matthew Lamb reviews Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, as told by award-winning investigative journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Noting Musk’s tendency to favour ‘the virtual over the physical world’, the book gives a ‘blow-by-blow’ account of Musk’s shortcomings while leading X. Matthew Lamb is a writer and the author of Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths . Listen to Matthew Lamb’s ‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ published in the January-February issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’ by Mark Finnane 16:09

14 weeks16:09

16:09

This week on The ABR Podcast, historian Mark Finnane asks: ‘who gets the right to speak on matters of research within a tradition of empirical scholarship?’ Mark Finnane is a Professor of History at Griffith University and has published widely on Australian and Irish history. Listen to Mark Finnane’s ‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’, published in the January-February issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: Keeping up with Judith Wright’ by Georgina Arnott 15:00

15 weeks15:00

15:00

This week on The ABR Podcast , Georgina Arnott discusses the dilemmas of writing an entry on Judith Wright for the Australian Dictionary of Biography . Georgina Arnott is the author of The Unknown Judith Wright , editor of Judith Wright: Selected Writings , and Assistant Editor at ABR . Listen to Georgina Arnott’s ‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: Keeping up with Judith Wright’, published in the January-February issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’ by Toby Davidson 19:28

17 weeks19:28

19:28

This week on The ABR Podcast, Toby Davidson marks the centenary of Francis Webb with an essay on the poet. Toby Davidson is the editor of Francis Webb’s Collected Poems and a senior lecturer at Macquarie University. Listen to Toby Davidson with ‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’, published in the January-February issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’ by James Ley 12:09

18 weeks12:09

12:09

This week on The ABR Podcast James Ley reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. For Ley, it is her most ambitious novel to date. James Ley is an essayist and literary critic. Listen to James Ley with ‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’, published in the December issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’ by Jonathan Ricketson 10:48

21 weeks10:48

10:48

This week on The ABR Podcast Jonathan Ricketson reviews The Season by Helen Garner. Ricketson explains that The Season is a memoir of Garner watching her grandson ‘Amby play for the Flemington Juniors in the Under-16s, from February to August 2023’. The experience involves an effacement of self, the grandmother on the sidelines rendered a ‘silent witness’. Jonathan Ricketson is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University, where he is working on a novel. Here is Jonathan Ricketson with ‘Silent witness : A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’, published in the December issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Out of the loop: Relaying information across time’ by Robyn Arianrhod 11:48

22 weeks11:48

11:48

On The ABR Podcast this week, Robyn Arianrhod reviews Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. Under the category ‘information networks’, Harari puts oral stories, clay tablets, chalkboards, newspapers, computers and more. Arianrhod writes: ‘Harari aims to illustrate these dilemmas so that we … are better prepared to handle the AI revolution’. Robyn Arianrhod is an Affiliate in Monash’s School of Mathematics and the author of Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation . Listen to Robyn Arianrhod’s ‘Out of the loop: Relaying information across time’, published in the November issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

1
‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake 13:44

24 weeks13:44

13:44

This week on The ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi. The Art of Power , explains Lake, tells how Pelosi, ‘a mother of five and a housewife from California’, became the first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Marilyn Lake is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Listen to Marilyn Lake’s ‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom’, published in the November issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein 13:11

25 weeks13:11

13:11

This week on The ABR Podcast, Josh Bornstein discusses corporate cancel culture. Bornstein argues that ‘Companies now routinely censor their employees far more repressively than any liberal democratic government does’. Josh Bornstein is an award-winning workplace lawyer and writer. His first book, Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroying free speech was recently published by Scribe. Listen to Josh Bornstein’s ‘Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture’, published in the November issues of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel 14:51

26 weeks14:51

14:51

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Paul Giles reviews Juice by Tim Winton. Juice represents a creative sidestep for the four-time Miles Franklin Award recipient, being both his longest novel and his first venture into speculative fiction. Paul Giles is Professor of English at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Listen to Paul Giles with ‘”Schooled in doubleness”:Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel’, published in the November issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt 12:31

27 weeks12:31

12:31

This week on The ABR Podcast, Johanna Leggatt reviews Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden. Leggatt quotes from the book: ‘There will be another pandemic. It might not happen for another century, or it might happen very soon.’ Johanna Leggatt is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. Listen to Johanna Leggatt’s ‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic’, published in the October issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler 13:44

28 weeks13:44

13:44

This week on The ABR Podcast, Michael Winkler reviews Chinese Postman by Brian Castro. ‘Reading Castro for plot is like listening to Bob Dylan for melody,’ says Winkler of the prize-winning author of eleven novels. Michael Winkler was the winner of the 2016 Calibre Essay Prize and is the author of Grimmish . Listen to Michael Winkler’s ‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’, published in the October issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher 10:21

29 weeks10:21

10:21

This week on The ABR Podcast, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher. Bridget Griffen-Foley is the founder of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University and has recently co-edited the fifth edition of The Media and Communications in Australia . Listen to Bridget Griffen-Foley’s ‘Quicksand: Notes from a media outsider and insider’, published in the October issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark 16:15

30 weeks16:15

16:15

This week on The ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark takes us to Papua New Guinea, the country of his childhood. Spark describes returning to an independent PNG as an historian and tour guide, and the noticeable cooling of Australian attitudes to the place and its ‘intoxicating possibilities’. Listen to Seumas Spark’s ‘Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea’, published in the October issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes 21:56

31 weeks21:56

21:56

This week on The ABR Podcast we reflect on the occupation and liberation of East Timor twenty-five years on from that extraordinary rupture. Clinton Fernandes draws on secret records released last month showing attempts by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to change the Australian War Memorial’s history of East Timor. Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales. Listen to Clinton Fernandes’s ‘History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor’, published in the October issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson 12:02

32 weeks12:02

12:02

This week on The ABR Podcast Geordie Williamson reviews Highway 13 , a collection of short stories by Fiona McFarlane. Each story is concerned with murder, that ‘ultimate de-creative act’, and might be thought of as true crime, given the real-world familiarity of characters, places, plots. Geordie Williamson is a literary critic, editor and the author of The Burning Library: Our greatest novelists lost and found . Listen to Geordie Williamson’s ‘A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy’, published in the September issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens 12:59

33 weeks12:59

12:59

This week on The ABR Podcast, Jeremy Martens reviews They Called It Peace: Worlds of imperial violence by Lauren Benton. The book examines what Benton terms imperial ‘small wars’, those conflicts which have historically not figured in war museums or national histories, but were nonetheless lethal and, explains Martens, ‘characterised settler empires across the globe, including in Australia’. Jeremy Martens is Chair of the Department of Classical and Historical Studies at the University of Western Australia. Listen to Jeremy Martens’s ‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’, published in the September issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell 15:41

34 weeks15:41

15:41

This week on The ABR Podcast, Kevin Bell addresses the crisis in housing in Australia – a crisis which he says is at risk of ‘turning into a social and economic catastrophe’. Kevin Bell is a self-described baby boomer who, in his role as a Supreme Court judge, wrote a number of influential judgments on human rights and housing. He is a former director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and commissioner of the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Listen to Kevin Bell’s ‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’, published in the September issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane 19:25

35 weeks19:25

19:25

This week on the ABR Podcast, Joel Deane considers the black and white politics of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Deane explains that Dutton considers these politics a ‘police trait’ that he developed while in the force, and one that now serves him well in politics, especially when making necessary snap judgements. But will this style endear him to the electorate in the next election campaign, likely fought against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese? Joel Deane is a speechwriter, novelist and poet. Listen to Joel Deane’s ‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’, published in the September issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane 24:06

36 weeks24:06

24:06

This week on the ABR Podcast, Paul Kane marks the centenary of James Baldwin with an essay on this indispensable prophet. Kane tells us: ‘Baldwin insisted that the only way forward, the only way out [for America], was through a renovation of the self, and this could only be accomplished through deep communication and empathy’. Paul Kane is Professor Emeritus as Vassar College in upstate New York. Listen to Paul Kane’s ‘James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’, published in the August issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize 27:27

37 weeks27:27

27:27

This week on the ABR Podcast we conclude our three-episode special on the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the winning story, ‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps. The judges described ‘Pornwald’ as ‘a puzzle that tests the limits of realism with an often riotously deadpan sense of humour’. Jill Van Epps is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn who is completing her first novel. Here is Jill Van Epps with ‘Pornwald’, published in the August issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize 33:25

38 weeks33:25

33:25

This week on the ABR Podcast, we continue to celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the second of three episodes featuring the shortlist. This week’s story is ‘M.’ by Shelley Stenhouse. The judges had this to say about ‘M.’: ‘Wittily told, this rollicking tale set in New York City is at once a character study of the garrulous oddball M and a tragicomic portrait of the narrator herself, whose compulsions and choices see her avoiding the everyday joys of her life as a mother.’ Shelley Stenhouse, a New York City-based poet and fiction writer, recently won the Palette Poetry Prize. Listen to ‘M.’, published in the August issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'First Snow' by Kerry Greer | The Jolley Prize 32:26

39 weeks32:26

32:26

Beginning this week on the ABR Podcast, we celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist over three episodes. In each episode, one of the three shortlisted authors will read their story – also published in the August issue of ABR. The overall winner of the Jolley Prize will be announced at an event at Gleebooks in Sydney on August 15. Proceeding in alphabetical order, Episode One features Kerry Greer’s ‘First Snow’. The judges had this to say about ‘First Snow’: ‘First Snow’ subtly enacts a vulnerable young woman’s decision to leave her self-absorbed, manipulative partner, the father of her baby. Contrasting her banal relationship with a poetic response to the natural world and the enchantments of motherhood, the story reminds us that traditional domestic fiction, in the hands of an intelligent, empathic writer, can render the ‘ordinary’ both psychologically complex and deeply affecting. Kerry Greer is an Irish-Australian poet and writer. She received the Venie Holmgren Prize for Environmental Poetry in 2021. Kerry has been shortlisted for the Calibre Essay Prize, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the ACU Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and more. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Cedar Crest College. Her début poetry collection, The Sea Chest , was published by Recent Work Press in 2023. Here is Kerry Greer with ‘First Snow’, published in the August issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape' by Robyn Arianrhod 15:02

40 weeks15:02

15:02

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Robyn Arianrhod considers the state of popular science writing in the Australian literary landscape. She argues that in-depth science writing with popular appeal and literary value is increasingly hard to find in Australia. And where exemplary works of this kind are published, they are rarely recognised with reviews or literary prizes. Robyn Arianrhod is an Affiliate in Monash’s School of Mathematics and her new book is Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation , published by NewSouth Books. Here is Robyn Arianrhod with ‘Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia' by Georgina Arnott 46:13

41 weeks46:13

46:13

In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature an essay from the ABR archive: ‘Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia’ by Georgina Arnott. In this essay, Arnott considers how the field of Australian history will be reshaped by emerging links between British slavery in the Caribbean and early settlers to the Australian colonies. Georgina Arnott is ABR Assistant Editor and the author of several articles on the legacies of colonialism in Australia and two biographical works. Listen to Georgina Arnott’s ‘Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia’ , published in the August 2020 issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America' by Timothy J. Lynch 11:43

42 weeks11:43

11:43

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Timothy J. Lynch considers whether the United States is on the path to a second civil war, as forecast by Nick Bryant in The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself . In his book, Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, argues that hate and paranoia form a central core of the American experience. Timothy J. Lynch is Professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne. Here is Timothy J. Lynch with ‘Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America’, published in the July issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’ by Nick Hordern 13:54

43 weeks13:54

13:54

On this week’s ABR Podcast, Nick Hordern tells the story of Mitty Lee-Brown, the Australian artist who went into self-imposed exile in 1968 to Ceylon, which in 1972 became Sri Lanka. Nick Hordern is a former diplomat and journalist, and the author of several books, including World War Noir: Sydney’s Unpatriotic War . Listen to ‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’, published in the July issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Pascoe's vision: Musings on life and Country' by Seumas Spark 10:28

44 weeks10:28

10:28

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark reviews Black Duck: A year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood. Spark writes: ‘ Black Duck is two things: a record of a year in the life of the farm, and a collection of musings on life and Country’. Seumas Spark is an historian at Monash University. Listen to Spark’s ‘Pascoe's vision: Musings on life and Country’, published in the June issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham 36:01

44 weeks36:01

36:01

In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature the third-place winner in this year’s Calibre Essay Prize, Nicole Hasham’s ‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’. In preparation for the essay, Walkley Award-winning journalist Nicole Hasham travelled to the site of Wakathuni, the Pilbara mountain also known as Tom Price that was blown up in 1974 to mine iron ore. Listen to Nicole Hasham’s ‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’, published in the July issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Peter Rose reviews 'Hazzard and Harrower: The letters' edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham 25:23

46 weeks25:23

25:23

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Peter Rose reviews Hazzard and Harrower: The letters , edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham . The correspondence between writers Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower ran from 1966 to 2008 and, in its unedited form, amounted to 400,000 words. Editors Susan Wyndham Brigitta Olubas have trimmed it down: ‘For the time being,’ says Peter Rose, ‘we must make do with this entertaining and not insubstantial entrée.’ Listen to Peter Rose’s ‘Flies in the Nirvana’: An illuminating and sisterly correspondence’, published in the June issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
'Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse's battle to defend authors' by Matthew Lamb 11:25

47 weeks11:25

11:25

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Frank Moorhouse biographer Matthew Lamb tells of his subject’s battle to defend Australian authors and the founding of Copyright Agency in 1974. Listen to Matthew Lamb with ‘Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse’s battle to defend authors’, published in the June issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Natasha Sholl's 'Hold your nerve' 22:11

48 weeks22:11

22:11

Last month ABR announced the winner, runner-up and third-place recipient of the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. In this week’s podcast we are delighted to present the 2024 Calibre runner-up, ‘Hold Your Nerve’, by Melbourne writer Natasha Sholl. Natasha Sholl is a writer and lapsed lawyer. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Age , Good Weekend and Mamamia . Her debut book, Found, Wanting , was published by Ultimo Press in 2022. Listen to Natasha Sholl with ‘Hold Your Nerve’, published in the June issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Tony Hughes d’Aeth reviews On Kim Scott: Writers on writers by Tony Birch 11:14

49 weeks11:14

11:14

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Tony Hughes d’Aeth reviews On Kim Scott: Writers on writers by Tony Birch. The book is the latest instalment in Black Inc.’s ‘Writers on Writers’ series. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia and the author of several books including the recently published Netflicks: Conceptual Television in the Streaming Era . Listen to Hughes-d’Aeth with ‘Archival poetics: An inflexion point in Indigenous writing’, published in the May issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Tracey Slaughter's ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’ 46:27

50 weeks46:27

46:27

With the publication of the May issue, ABR was delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. Tracey Slaughter – from Aotearoa New Zealand – has become the first overseas writer to claim the Calibre Prize with her essay ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’. We are thrilled Tracey Slaughter could join the ABR Podcast to read her winning essay. Listen to Tracey Slaughter with ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’, published in the May issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Scott Stephens reviews Crimes of the Cross by Anne Manne 17:02

51 weeks17:02

17:02

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Scott Stephens reviews a book by Anne Manne: Crimes of the Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle, its protectors and the man who fought for justice . Why is narcissism a central theme for a book about child sexual abuse? Stephens writes: ‘without the capacity or willingness to be attentive to the humanity of another person’, unfathomable cruelty becomes possible. Scott Stephens is the ABC’s Religion & Ethics online editor and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. Listen to Scott Stephens’s ‘ Soul blindness: Clerical narcissism and unfathomable cruelty ’, published in the May issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Patrick Mullins reviews ‘Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics’ by Lech Blaine 11:28

1 year11:28

11:28

This week on the ABR Podcast we review a profile of opposition leader Peter Dutton . Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics by Lech Blaine is the ninety-third issue of the BlackInc Quarterly Essay . In his review of Bad Cop , political biographer Patrick Mullins begins by comparing Dutton to another cop-turned-politician in Bill Hayden. Listen to Patrick Mullins with ‘”Some grotesque Minotaur”: Peter Dutton’s aggressive formation’, published in the May issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Micheal Shmith reviews The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy 10:26

1 year10:26

10:26

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Michael Shmith reviews a memoir from poet, novelist, librettist, and Adelaide GP Peter Goldsworthy. The book’s title is The Cancer Finishing School. Shmith begins by observing that doctors aren’t supposed to become incurably ill, before immediately recognising this as the useless delusion of a patient. Michael Shmith is a Melbourne-based writer and editor whose most recent book is Merlyn , a biography of the widow of Sidney Myer. Listen to Michael Shmith’s ‘It might be …: P is for Peter, physician, patient, poet’ , published in the April issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

The ABR Podcast

1
Gregory Day 'The Neighbour's Beans' 22:37

1 year22:37

22:37

In this week’s ABR podcast we feature one of the winners of the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Gregory Day’s ‘The Neighbour’s Beans’ was joint winner of the prize that year with Carrie Tiffany’s ‘Before He Left the Family’. Gregory Day commented at the time that ‘the short story form encourages an intense display of the writer’s craft whilst being a potent vehicle for the compression of emotion’. Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, and composer from the Eastern Otways region of southwest Victoria. Listen to Gregory Day’s ‘The Neighbour’s Beans’, published in the October 2011 issue of ABR . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Amazon eGift Card - Amazon Logo (Animated)

TERRO Ant Killer Bait Stations T300B - Liquid Bait to Eliminate Ants - 12 Count Stations for Effective Indoor Ant Control

Amazon Basics Dog and Puppy Pee Pads with Leak-Proof Quick-Dry Design for Potty Training, Standard Absorbency, Regular Size, 22 x 22 Inches, Pack of 100, Blue & White

Podcastok, amelyeket érdemes meghallgatni

The ABR Podcast

The ABR Podcast

Podcastok, amelyeket érdemes meghallgatni

Üdvözlünk a Player FM-nél!

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love (Hear Your Story Books)

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love (Hear Your Story Books)

Dr. Elsey's Ultra UnScented Clumping Clay Cat Litter 40 lb. Bag

Huggies Natural Care Sensitive Baby Wipes, Unscented, Hypoallergenic, 99% Purified Water, 12 Flip-Top Packs (768 Wipes Total), Packaging May Vary

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love (Hear Your Story Books)

Gyors referencia kézikönyv