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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.For more information about ABR, visit our website, www.australianbookreview.com.au
Unknown Host hosts The ABR Podcast, a society show with 101 episodes published.
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature WA Senator Varun Ghosh’s essay, ‘Literary critic as democratic role model’, which discusses the relationship between literary criticism and politics. Ghosh arg
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the winner of the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, ‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery. The young narrator of ‘C.Q.D.’ is on board the Carpathia &n
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Elise Westin’s essay, titled ‘The architecture of erasure’. The third-place winner of the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, ‘The architecture of erasure’ me
This week on The ABR Podcast , Lucy Sussex reviews The Stained Man by Patrick Mullins, a biography of the first Labor Lord Mayor of Sydney, Richard Meagher. Mullins’s book is a ‘genuinely riveting and f
This week, on The ABR Podcast , Jessica White reviews Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers that attempts to ‘represent as wide a variety of multiply marginalised disabled experiences as possible’. T
This week on The ABR Podcast , Lisa Gorton reviews Tomorrow by Peter Goldsworthy. A poetic companion to Goldsworthy’s ‘expansive, thoughtful’ memoir The Cancer Finishing School , Tomorrow braids the eve
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Killian Quigley’s review of Plotting the Oceans: Stories of powerful maps and their makers by Sarah Hamylton. Hamylton’s sharp insights emerge from her deeply embodi
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Killian Quigley’s review of Plotting the Oceans: Stories of powerful maps and their makers by Sarah Hamylton. Hamylton’s sharp insights emerge from her deeply embodi
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the runner-up in the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, titled ‘Tumbleweed: How the West was Lost’, by Maria Takolander. Wide-ranging and delightfully digressive, Takolander&r
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Carissa Chye’s essay on David Malouf, titled ‘One of our rarest gifts’. A retrospective piece on ABR ’s rich, generative relationship with Malouf, Chye&rs
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Marjon Mossammaparast’s essay, titled ‘When people ask me about the “situation” in Iran’. She traces the complicated relationsh
This week on The ABR Podcast , Katherine Wilson reviews ‘ Fed Up: A chef’s adventures in food, farming and feminism ’ by Lucy Ridge. Partially a memoir of Ridge’s disillusionment with a food indus
This week on The ABR Podcast , Kevin Hart reviews Turning Away: The poetics of an ancient gesture by Benjamin Saltzman. Saltzman examines our instinct to ‘turn away, whenever we are faced with death, grief, helples
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Sahar Rabah’s winning essay from the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, ‘Beyond reality and dreams’. The Calibre Essay Prize, now in its twentieth year, is one of the w
This week, on The ABR Podcast , Jane Gleeson-White reviews Erin Vincent’s memoir Fourteen Ways of Looking . Vincent’s parents were killed suddenly in an accident when she was fourteen, a
This week on The ABR Podcast , Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews On Alexis Wright by Geordie Williamson. Hughes-d’Aeth notes that Williamson mounts a spirited defence of Alexis Wright against what
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature a commentary by Florence Honybun on a ‘distinct trend’ towards progressive legalism in the Australian High Court. While Australians often look to US
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature a special commentary by Dennis Altman on the new literary scams enabled by artificial intelligence. Altman recounts the multiple emails he has received from pe
This week, on The ABR Podcast , Felicity Plunkett reviews Fear Less: Poetry in perilous times , by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In a cultural moment when language is ofte
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature a special commentary by Simon Tedeschi on writers’ festivals. At the level below headlines, writers’ festivals have in recent years undergone a more s
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