All Episodes

‘A deeper kind of itch: Poetry of the mirrored plate’ by Lisa Gorton

‘Vulnerable to place: Navigating deep blue history’ by Killian Quigley

‘Tumbleweed: How the West was lost’ by Maria Takolander

‘“One of our rarest gifts”: David Malouf in the pages of Australian Book Review’ by Carissa Chye

‘When people ask me about the “situation” in Iran: Locating ourselves and each other through the voices of the vatan’ by Marjon Mossammaparast

‘One bad day: Meditations on commodified flesh’ by Katherine Wilson

‘Too human: Shame, horror, aversion’ by Kevin Hart

‘Between reality and dreams’ by Sahar Rabah

‘Again and again: More poem than memoir’ by Jane Gleeson-White

‘Rethinking “on”: Sitting and listening to Wright’ by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

‘Progressive legalism in Australia’s High Court: How migration, aliens, and punishment cases reveal a distinct trend’ by Florence Honybun

‘“May today sink peace into your soul”: New scams in the literary world’ by Dennis Altman

‘Urgent compassion: Paying courageous attention’ by Felicity Plunkett

‘“Suppose I am wrong?”: On writers’ festivals, reassurance, calibration, and risk’ by Simon Tedeschi

‘Thinking in public: The vulpine poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe’ by Eleanor Spencer-Regan

'Roads to roads: Bathos of the ordinary' by Grace Roodenrys

'Lemmings over a cliff: On political and publishing expediency' by Joel Deane

‘When universities mattered: Higher education in a country addicted to the plough’ by Stephen Garton

‘Thought’s tempo: Essays that imagine otherwise’ by Mindy Gill

‘A truly probabilistic universe: One hundred years of heated debate and mind-bending physics’ by Sara Webb

‘Less an author than a milieu: Reading Shakespeare in the New World’ by Stuart Kells

Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2026 Shortlist

'Carbon bomb: Business models based on climate catastrophe' by Stephen Long

‘Skewering AUKUS: A point-by-point account’ by James Curran

‘Liars, inventors, embroiderers: Rewriting the life and myth of Charmian Clift’ by Nadia Wheatley

‘Understand me now: Poetry which cuts into the work’ by Grace Roodenrys

‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’ by Jessica Whyte

‘Carte blanche from me’: Volume two in a PM biography by Patrick Mullins

‘On so many levels: A sharp yet melancholic account’ by Clare Corbould

‘Limerence’ by Rachael Wenona Guy

‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’ by Kate Fullagar

‘AI will kill us/save us: Hype and harm in the new economic order’ by Judith Bishop

‘Sediment’ by Tracey Slaughter

‘Albanese’s “Australian Way”: The rise of “progressive patriotism” and its complex past’ by Sean Scalmer

‘Deeper into darkness: Iran after the twelve-day war’ by Zoe Holman

‘“Come nearer to Asia”: Australia’s place at Bandung, 1955’ by Nathan Hollier

‘Shelling’ by Tara Sharman

‘“Without undue suffering”: Japan’s August 1945 and the superweapon alibi’ by Clinton Fernandes

‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng

‘Dogged pursuit: Australia’s “America first” policy’ by Marilyn Lake

‘Some undefined peace: Moving beyond “migrant writer”’ by Felicity Plunkett

‘Balance sheet blues: The pros and cons of Pax Americana coming to an end’ by James Curran

‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord

‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript

‘“Rejecting the system it created”: How Trump’s America is reshaping Australia’s regional relations’ by Rebecca Strating

‘A worse world: History from the future’ by André Dao

‘The Chirp/The Scream’ by Natasha Sholl, runner-up in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize

‘Method and message: Rethinking Australian military history’ by Kate Fullagar

'Diary' by Peter Rose

'Eucharist' by 2025 Calibre Essay Prize winner Jeanette Mrozinski

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

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

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

'Attention, Please!' A Peter Rose Poetry Special

‘A Body of Water’, a short story by Else Fitzgerald

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize

'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize

'First Snow' by Kerry Greer | The Jolley Prize

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Natasha Sholl's 'Hold your nerve'

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

Tracey Slaughter's ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’

Scott Stephens reviews Crimes of the Cross by Anne Manne

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

Micheal Shmith reviews The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy

Gregory Day 'The Neighbour's Beans'

Frank Bongiorno on how the Albanese government is travelling

Sascha Morrell reviews 'Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths' by Mathew Lamb

'The Great Red Whale', an essay by Michael Winkler

Scott Stephens reviews Kevin Hart's book on contemplation

Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet by Nathan Hollier

'Sleepers', a short story by Cate Kennedy

Stuart Kells reviews 'Alan Joyce and Qantas'

An essay on the lives of ‘ordinary’ migrants by Ebony Nilsson

Kevin Foster reviews David McBride's whistleblower memoir

Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2024 Shortlist

The referendum and John Howard’s long political shadow

Will we ever have another referendum?

'The Morning Belongs to Us', an essay by Siobhan Kavanagh

Jelena Dinić pays tribute to Charles Simic