Read 'Land rights interrupted? How Whitlam’s dismissal changed the history of First Nations land repossession' by Heidi Norman and Francis Markham on the ABR website.
01.10.2025 05:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read the new October issue, out now.
01.10.2025 04:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Tara Sharman’s short story ‘Shelling’, which won the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.
www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...
11.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng | The ABR Podcast #245
This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social.
‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by @lyndang.bsky.social | @harvardpress.bsky.social
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04.09.2025 04:37 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
‘Evans’s Romeo & Juliet reminds us of the time and love required to craft live art, and of the art of living in real time.’
‘Romeo & Juliet: A production that winks at Petrarchan courtly love conventions’ by Kate Flaherty
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03.09.2025 05:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read the September issue of Australian Book Review, available now.
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01.09.2025 07:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
‘Miles Franklin Undercover does not have the weight of Roe’s biography, nor the lyricism of Salonika Burning. It is, instead, a slice of Franklin’s life ..’
Lucy Sussex reviews ‘Miles Franklin Undercover’ by Kerrie Davies | @allenandunwin.bsky.social
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25.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Our New Gods is gripping and without tenderness ... It is a glimpse into the human heart, which finds something cold and unpleasant lurking inside.’
Jonathan Ricketson reviews ‘Our New Gods’ by Thomas Vowles
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24.08.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘The Southern Frontier brings a fascinating new perspective to a topic that is likely to become increasingly important as geopolitical and environmental threats to Antarctica mount.’
Elizabeth Leane reviews ‘The Southern Frontier’ by Rohan Howitt
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28.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘For Levy’s devotees, The Position of Spoons will be another encounter with her stylistic eccentricities and humorous mode of looking at the world.’
Beth Kearney reviews ‘The Position of Spoons’ by Deborah Levy | penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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25.07.2025 09:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Brooker as its inaugural Arts Editor.
24.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Felicity Plunkett as its new Poetry Editor.
24.07.2025 06:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones
Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones
‘The Name of the Sister seems laden with meaning and import but I struggled to work out what these were and how they might fit together.’
Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones | @textpublishing.bsky.social
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21.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
‘After a couple of rocky years featuring several less than stellar productions, the seemingly assured success of Carmen and Rusalka suggests that Opera Australia is on the right path.’
‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
21.07.2025 06:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara’ by Alexis Vassiley
Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara’ by Alexis Vassiley
‘Hamersley Iron’s workforce went from total collective bargaining in 1992 to ninety per cent individual contract coverage ... Striking Ore illuminates what has been lost through that transformation.’
Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore’ by Alexis Vassiley
18.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord
This week on the ABR Podcast we feature Robin Boord’s essay ‘Consolation of Clouds’, which was placed third in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize.
www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...
10.07.2025 06:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now Open! The 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize - Worth $10,000.
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize is now open for entries. The prize, worth a total of $10,000, will be judged Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani.
www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...
07.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
‘Motherhood is, Vogel insinuates in Mother Play, both play and performance.’
‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/...
07.07.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken
Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken
‘It is, however, the confounding structure that turns out to be the twist in Carbon, the book.’
Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken | @textpublishing.bsky.social
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04.07.2025 08:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ by Linda Jaivin.
www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-...
03.07.2025 02:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley
Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley
‘Landfall is climate fiction of an Australia still to come, but it is also one that is very much about our present moment, and our harrowing, frequently unaddressed past.’
Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley | @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
27.06.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘Together, they provide a rich entry point into contemporary Spanish and Indigenous language cinema, balancing crowd-pleasing drama with subtle, art-house storytelling.’
EL 47 and Through Rocks and Clouds: The Spanish Film Festival offers two tales of struggle by Angela Viora
25.06.2025 06:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘The work ... draws attention to the inherent artificiality of the art form while addressing our cultural fixation with beauty and desirability.’
‘Aphrodite: Sydney Chamber Opera’s modern take on the goddess of love’ by Michael Halliwell
25.06.2025 05:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kirsten Tranter reviews ‘Everything Lost, Everything Found’ by Matthew Hooton
Kirsten Tranter reviews ‘Everything Lost, Everything Found’ by Matthew Hooton
‘The underlying calculus of fate and sacrifice remains mysterious, unknowable, resistant to simplification.’
Kirsten Tranter reviews ‘Everything Lost, Everything Found’ by Matthew Hooton | @harpercollins.bsky.social
23.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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