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1 David Sornig : Blue Lake FL , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 15-21 September 2018;

'They’re a weird mob, psychogeographers. Always drifting through boondocks and “liminal spaces”, interrogating their forsakenness. Iain Sinclair in rust-industrial London, Martin Amis bound for the airport on foot. It’s not as dull as it might sound, but it is essentially weird.'  (Introduction)

1 Danielle Clode : The Wasp and the Orchid FL , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14-20 April 2018;

'The subtitle promises “the remarkable life” of Edith Coleman, but remarkable how? As Danielle Clode tells it, it comes across as remarkable in the sense of noteworthy, rather than extraordinary. Which is fine – by all means, let’s take note – but is there a book in it?' (Introduction)

1 Sonya Voumard : Skin in the Game FL , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 March 2018;

'The centrepiece of Skin in the Game is an account of an interview with Helen Garner almost 40 years ago. Sonya Voumard, then an 18-year-old cadet journalist, chose Garner as her subject for a university assignment. The interview was convivial and frank – so frank that Garner was shocked when she read the finished piece. “It is always traumatic to see the way another person has perceived you,” she wrote to Voumard, “especially when you feel you have talked a little too freely …” If Garner “learnt a lesson” from the experience, so did her interviewer – although it would take more than 30 years and a second interview with Garner, reappraising the first, to grasp fully the ways in which the disjunct between journalist and subject can leave the latter “slightly pulled askew” (and not just on the page).' (Introduction)

1 Heather Morris : The Tattooist of Auschwitz FL , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 February 2018;

'The story of Lale Sokolov’s three years in Auschwitz-Birkenau was recounted by him to Heather Morris, in Melbourne, as he neared the age of 90. Gita, his wife of almost 60 years, had recently died and Lale was eager, before he joined her, to tell his story, so that “It would never happen again.” Morris was introduced as a potential biographer.' (Introduction)

1 Best Books of 2017 #1 FL , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 23 December- 26 January 2018;

— Review of Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry , 2017 selected work essay

'In Mirror Sydney, inspired by psychogeography, Vanessa Berry embarks on “drifts” through inauspicious Sydney – hollowed-out factory districts, heedless highways and all-but-forgotten suburban arcades. She anatomises the contents of a lost-property office, and visits sites associated with elephants. The dreamy, daggy landmarks are features of a more “introspective” city than you’d find in the travel guides – or even on the street, unless tipped off by Berry’s slightly cockeyed curiosity. She also creates hand-drawn mumblecore maps that she likens to star charts, 'revealing places as constellations rather than the linear pathways of the written word'.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] The Enigmatic Mr Deakin FL , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19-25 August 2017;

'When he was 22 and a mint-new member of the Victorian parliament, Alfred Deakin won wild applause with a maiden speech in which he tendered his resignation. In a political career spanning almost 40 years, Deakin would nearly always be on the verge of resigning.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] The Last Man in Europe FL , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22-28 July 2017;

'Eric Blair died for want of a typist. Self-exiled to a remote Scottish island and hollowed out by tuberculosis, he quailed at the prospect of typing a clean manuscript copy of his just-completed novel. Despite an SOS to his publishers, no typist eventuated. If he were to meet his end-of-1948 deadline, he’d have to do the job himself. And so he did, propped up in bed with the typewriter on a tea tray. But three days after typing “THE END”, Blair suffered his final collapse.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] Old Growth FL , 2017 single work essay review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11 February 2017;
'One of Australia’s leading poets, as well as professor of sustainability and literature at Curtin University, John Kinsella has stated that the “purpose” of his poetry is “to draw attention to the damage being done and to show that we are all implicated”. It’s pretty clear that he has hewn from the same brief in writing the stories that make up this collection.' (Introduction)
1 Gideon Haigh, Stroke of Genius FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3 September 2016;

— Review of Stroke of Genius Gideon Haigh , 2016 single work biography
1 Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 23 July 2016;

— Review of The Hate Race : A Memoir Maxine Beneba Clarke , 2016 single work autobiography
1 Review : The Memory Artist FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14 May 2016;

— Review of The Memory Artist Katherine Brabon , 2016 single work novel
1 Martin McKenzie-Murray, A Murder Without Motive FL , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 February 2016;

— Review of A Murder Without Motive Martin McKenzie-Murray , 2016 single work biography
1 David Marr, Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power FL , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 September 2015;

— Review of Faction Man : Bill Shorten's Path to Power David Marr , 2016 single work biography
1 Books 2015 #2 FL , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 December 2015;

— Review of Small Acts of Disappearance : Essays on Hunger Fiona Wright , 2015 selected work essay ; Hot Little Hands Abigail Ulman , 2015 selected work short story ; Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf Gerald Murnane , 2015 single work autobiography
1 Review : One Life : My Mother’s Story FL , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4 April 2015;

— Review of One Life : My Mother's Story Kate Grenville , 2015 single work biography
1 Review : Lion Attack! FL , 2015 single work
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 9 May 2015;

— Review of Lion Attack! Oliver Mol , 2015 single work prose
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