2019
Kim Gordon interview (Spectrum, August 2019)
Falling for Fleabag (The Monthly, July 2019)
Review of Kate Atkinson’s Big Sky (Spectrum, July 2019)
Gardening fail: when even lantana defeats you (Sydney Morning Herald, June 2019)
Life with beasts of the North American urban wild (Sydney Morning Herald, June 2019)
Light at the end of the carpal tunnel (Spectrum, March 2019)
Fantastic Negrito (Spectrum, March 2019)
The terrible joy of writing (Spectrum, February 2019)
375 shades of white (Spectrum, January 2019)
2018
Once Again: Outside in the House of Art (runner-up in the ABR Calibre Essay Prize, Australian Book Review, May 2018)
Review of Rachel Cusk’s Kudos (Australian Book Review, August 2018)
Review of Tana French’s The Wychelm (The Age, November 2018)
Khaled Hosseni (profile) (Spectrum, August 2018)
Many Ambivalent Returns (Spectrum, August 2018)
The utopian rooster and difficult chickens (Spectrum, August 2018)
The Weird World of Property Styling (Spectrum, July 2018)
James Cameron (Profile) (Spectrum, May 2018)
Diggers! On seeing the world through a toddler’s eyes (Spectrum, June 2018)
Going Grey (Spectrum, April 2018)
Living with the new normal: mass murder at school (Sydney Morning Herald News Review, February 2018)
Moving House (Spectrum, January 2018)
Review of John le Carré’s A Legacy of Spies (The Australian)
2017
Miéville’s Surreal Weapons: on China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Parisand This Census-Taker (Public Books, February 2017)
Spark Connection (on clothes, memory, and longing)(Avidly, October 2017)
Doctor Who and the magic of television(The Guardian, February 2017)
Review of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage (The Age, October 2017)
Welcome to Hate Week at UC Berkeley (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 2017)
2016
Jonathan Franzen (Profile) (Good Weekend, May 2016)
Review of Emma Cline’s The Girls (The Sydney Morning Herald, September 2016)
2015
“Go Little Book”: On Being Reviewed (Overland, Summer 2014; Best Australian Essays, 2015)
Gloria Steinem (Profile) (Good Weekend, October 2015)
Cheryl Strayed (Profile) (Good Weekend, January 2015)
“Shouting My Abortion: For My Nineteen-Year Old Self” (Overland, October 2015)
Review of Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time (The Australian, December 2015)
Review of David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web (The Australian, October 2015)
Review of Joanna Rackoff’s A Fortunate Age (The Australian, July 2015)
2014
Lana Del Rey (profile) (Good Weekend, May 2014)
Frances Mayes (profile) (Good Weekend, April 2014)
Review of Lauren Beuke’s Broken Monsters (The Australian, September 2014)
Review of D.B.C. Pierre’s Breakfast with the Borgias (The Australian, August 2014)
Review of Rjurik Davidson’s Unwrapped Sky (The Age, August 2014)
Review of Ann Patchett’s non-fiction collection, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (The Australian, January 2014)
2013
Anjelica Huston (profile) (Good Weekend, November 2013)
Jacki Weaver (profile) (Good Weekend, November 2013)
Water, Writing and Submerged Fairground Attractions: A Conversation with Stella Prize-shortlisted authors Margo Lanagan and Lisa Jacobson (Herkind blog, August 2013)
Joan Baez (profile) (Good Weekend, July 2013)
Khaled Hosseini (interview) (Good Weekend, June 2013)
Review of Helen Fielding’s Mad About The Boy (The Australian, November 2013)
Review of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (The Sydney Morning Herald, November 2013)
Review of Ian Rankin’s Saints of the Shadow Bible (The Australian, November 2013)
Review of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (The Australian, September 2013)
Review of Louise Erdrich’s The Roundhouse (The Australian, June 2013)
Review of Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs (Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald May 2013)
Review of Hannah Richell’s The Shadow Year (Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald May 2013)
My books of the year for 2013, in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian
2012
An interview with China Miéville (Contemporary Literature, Fall 2012)
Writing Friendship (Untitled Books, July 2012)
What are the books you once loved that now make you cringe? (Wheeler Centre Dailies, April 2012)
Why Women Writers Get a Smaller Slice of the Pie (Wheeler Centre Dailies, March 2012)
Review of Standing in Another Man’s Graveby Ian Rankin (The Australian, November 2012)
Review of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies (The Australian, May 2012)
Review of Granta, Horror issue (The Australian, February 4, 2012)
Review of P.D.James’ Death Comes to Pemberley (The Australian, January 2012)
2011
Refiguring Fiction: China Miéville’s Embassytown (Overland, September 2011)
An interview with Overland about China Miéville and Embassytown (Overland blog, September 2011)
Review of A.N.Wilson’s Dante in Love (Australian Literary Review, July 2011)
Review of Geraldine Brooks’ Caleb’s Crossing (The Monthly, May 2011)
Some thoughts on genre and literary fiction (Shearer’s blog, May 2011)
Why are women missing from the literary pages? (Wheeler Centre Blog, March 2011)
2010
Quaint Misogyny: A review of Mad Men, Season 4 (The Monthly, October 2010)
Domestic Spectacles: Rental Nightmares in Sydney (The Monthly, June 2010)
Keep Calm, Buy Posters (The Monthly, April 2010)
2009
On Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy (The Monthly, November 2009)
On Twilight, the Anti-Buffy (The Australian, March 2009)
2008
How Harry Potter got kids to stop reading (Australian Literary Review, December 2008)