Essays, reviews and journalism

'Little Morality plays - review of The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub', Australian Book Review, April 2025.

'Signs of Damage by Diana Reid - review', Guardian Australia, 13 March 2025.

'Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry', Crikey, 17 Feburary 2025.

'Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall - review', Guardian Australia, 6 February 2025.

'Another publishing house gets swallowed, leaving Australian literature on shaky ground', Crikey,  30 Jan 2025.

'The Season by Helen Garner - review', Guardian Australia, 5 December 2024.

'The Thinning by Inga Simpson - review', Guardian Australia, 15 November 2024.

'Enemies of Goodness', Sydney Review of Books, 1 November 2024 - on No Judgement by Lauren Oyler and All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld. 

'Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine - review', Guardian Australia, 1 November 2024.

'Big Fish, Little Fish: Australia's national literature is being swallowed up', Crikey, 30 September 2024.

'Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi - review', Guardian Australia, 20 September 2024.

'The End and Everything Before It by Finnegan Kruckemeyer - review', Guardian Australia, 19 July 2024.

'No Mercy: A review of Scott Morrison's memoir', Crikey, 14 May 2024.

'Everything is Somehow Alike', Sydney Review of Books, 5 May 2024 - on Filterworld by Kyle Chayka.

'Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon - review', Guardian Australia, 2 May 2024.

'How To Knit A Human by Anna Jacobson - review', Guardian Australia, 5 April 2024.

'A Decade of Complaints', Australian Literary Studies, October 2023 – on public and private modes of complaint about literary value.

‘The Measure of Things’, Australian Book Review, October 2023 – on Question 7, by Richard Flanagan.

‘As Pluck Would Have It’, Sydney Review of Books, October 2023 – on the fiction of Pip Williams.

‘Fool’s Gold’, Public Books, May 2023 – on the excesses of blurb culture.

‘Only Feelings’, Sydney Review of Books, December 2022 – on The Most Important Job in the World, by Gina Rushton.

‘Critic Swallows Book’, Sydney Review of Books, May 2022 – on the fiction of Trent Dalton.

‘Pick Your Own Misadventure,’ Sydney Review of Books, March 2017 – on Avalanche: A Love Story, by Julia Leigh.

‘A Fluctuating Charm,’ Sydney Review of Books, July 2017 – on An Uncertain Grace, by Kris Kneen.

‘Race Plans’, Griffith Review, August 2016 – on motherhood and running.

‘Writing, Editing: an interview with Ellen van Neerven’, Sydney Review of Books, October 2015.

‘How Should A Feminist Critic Be?’ Kill Your Darlings, January 2015 – on Roxane Gay. 

‘The Life of Houses’, Australian Book Review, July 2015 – on Lisa Gorton.

‘Channelling the Emotion of the Moment’, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2014 – on Julia Gillard's memoir.