Cele mai bune The Abr Podcast podcast-uri (2025)

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‘A Body of Water’, a short story by Else Fitzgerald 18:17

3d ago18:17

18:17

This week on The ABR Podcast we feature a short story from the ABR Archive. The story, ‘A Body of Water’ by Else Fitzgerald, was commended in the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. It opens in the desolate, quiet space of a former steel town on the Franklin River. Fitzgerald writes: ‘The town hunkers on the southernmost tip of a cruel spi…

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“Subject to his birth”: The biography of a prince' by Christopher Allen 9:00

10d ago9:00

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Christopher Allen reviews James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects by Alexander Edward Gilly. James Fairfax, who was born in 1933 and died in 2017, was born into the ‘greatest press dynasty Australia had yet seen’. Christopher Allen is the national art critic for The Australian. Listen to Christopher Al…

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‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn 33:18

17d ago33:18

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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature a short story from the ABR archive. The story, ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’ by S.J. Finn, was commended in the 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. (The 2025 Jolley Short Story Prize is now open!) S.J. Finn is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. Listen to ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, first publi…

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‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ by Matthew Lamb 10:53

24d ago10:53

10:53

This week on The ABR Podcast, Matthew Lamb reviews Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, as told by award-winning investigative journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Noting Musk’s tendency to favour ‘the virtual over the physical world’, the book gives a ‘blow-by-blow’ account of Musk’s shortcomings while leading X. Matthew Lamb is a wr…

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‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’ by Mark Finnane 16:09

1M ago16:09

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This week on The ABR Podcast, historian Mark Finnane asks: ‘who gets the right to speak on matters of research within a tradition of empirical scholarship?’ Mark Finnane is a Professor of History at Griffith University and has published widely on Australian and Irish history. Listen to Mark Finnane’s ‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research pr…

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‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: Keeping up with Judith Wright’ by Georgina Arnott 15:00

1M ago15:00

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Georgina Arnott discusses the dilemmas of writing an entry on Judith Wright for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Georgina Arnott is the author of The Unknown Judith Wright, editor of Judith Wright: Selected Writings, and Assistant Editor at ABR. Listen to Georgina Arnott’s ‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: K…

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‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’ by Toby Davidson 19:28

2M ago19:28

19:28

This week on The ABR Podcast, Toby Davidson marks the centenary of Francis Webb with an essay on the poet. Toby Davidson is the editor of Francis Webb’s Collected Poems and a senior lecturer at Macquarie University. Listen to Toby Davidson with ‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’, published in the January-February issue of ABR. See o…

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‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’ by James Ley 12:09

2M ago12:09

12:09

This week on The ABR Podcast James Ley reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. For Ley, it is her most ambitious novel to date. James Ley is an essayist and literary critic. Listen to James Ley with ‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’, published in the December issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf…

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‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’ by Jonathan Ricketson 10:48

3M ago10:48

10:48

This week on The ABR Podcast Jonathan Ricketson reviews The Season by Helen Garner. Ricketson explains that The Season is a memoir of Garner watching her grandson ‘Amby play for the Flemington Juniors in the Under-16s, from February to August 2023’. The experience involves an effacement of self, the grandmother on the sidelines rendered a ‘silent w…

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‘Out of the loop: Relaying information across time’ by Robyn Arianrhod 11:48

3M ago11:48

11:48

On The ABR Podcast this week, Robyn Arianrhod reviews Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. Under the category ‘information networks’, Harari puts oral stories, clay tablets, chalkboards, newspapers, computers and more. Arianrhod writes: ‘Harari aims to illustrate these dilemmas so that we … a…

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‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake 13:44

3M ago13:44

13:44

This week on The ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi. The Art of Power, explains Lake, tells how Pelosi, ‘a mother of five and a housewife from California’, became the first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Marilyn Lake is a Professori…

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'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein 13:11

4M ago13:11

13:11

This week on The ABR Podcast, Josh Bornstein discusses corporate cancel culture. Bornstein argues that ‘Companies now routinely censor their employees far more repressively than any liberal democratic government does’. Josh Bornstein is an award-winning workplace lawyer and writer. His first book, Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroy…

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‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel 14:51

4M ago14:51

14:51

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Paul Giles reviews Juice by Tim Winton. Juice represents a creative sidestep for the four-time Miles Franklin Award recipient, being both his longest novel and his first venture into speculative fiction. Paul Giles is Professor of English at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Listen to Paul Giles with ‘”…

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‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt 12:31

4M ago12:31

12:31

This week on The ABR Podcast, Johanna Leggatt reviews Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden. Leggatt quotes from the book: ‘There will be another pandemic. It might not happen for another century, or it might happen very soon.’ Johanna Leggatt is a Melbourne-based write…

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‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler 13:44

4M ago13:44

13:44

This week on The ABR Podcast, Michael Winkler reviews Chinese Postman by Brian Castro. ‘Reading Castro for plot is like listening to Bob Dylan for melody,’ says Winkler of the prize-winning author of eleven novels. Michael Winkler was the winner of the 2016 Calibre Essay Prize and is the author of Grimmish. Listen to Michael Winkler’s ‘Giving up mi…

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Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher 10:21

5M ago10:21

10:21

This week on The ABR Podcast, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher. Bridget Griffen-Foley is the founder of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University and has recently co-edited the fifth edition of …

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'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark 16:15

5M ago16:15

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark takes us to Papua New Guinea, the country of his childhood. Spark describes returning to an independent PNG as an historian and tour guide, and the noticeable cooling of Australian attitudes to the place and its ‘intoxicating possibilities’. Listen to Seumas Spark’s ‘Drinking from coconuts: When Australian…

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'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes 21:56

5M ago21:56

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This week on The ABR Podcast we reflect on the occupation and liberation of East Timor twenty-five years on from that extraordinary rupture. Clinton Fernandes draws on secret records released last month showing attempts by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to change the Australian War Memorial’s history of East Timor. Clinton Ferna…

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'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson 12:02

5M ago12:02

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This week on The ABR Podcast Geordie Williamson reviews Highway 13, a collection of short stories by Fiona McFarlane. Each story is concerned with murder, that ‘ultimate de-creative act’, and might be thought of as true crime, given the real-world familiarity of characters, places, plots. Geordie Williamson is a literary critic, editor and the auth…

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‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens 12:59

5M ago12:59

12:59

This week on The ABR Podcast, Jeremy Martens reviews They Called It Peace: Worlds of imperial violence by Lauren Benton. The book examines what Benton terms imperial ‘small wars’, those conflicts which have historically not figured in war museums or national histories, but were nonetheless lethal and, explains Martens, ‘characterised settler empire…

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‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell 15:41

6M ago15:41

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Kevin Bell addresses the crisis in housing in Australia – a crisis which he says is at risk of ‘turning into a social and economic catastrophe’. Kevin Bell is a self-described baby boomer who, in his role as a Supreme Court judge, wrote a number of influential judgments on human rights and housing. He is a former direc…

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‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane 19:25

6M ago19:25

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Joel Deane considers the black and white politics of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Deane explains that Dutton considers these politics a ‘police trait’ that he developed while in the force, and one that now serves him well in politics, especially when making necessary snap judgements. But will this style endear him t…

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'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane 24:06

6M ago24:06

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Paul Kane marks the centenary of James Baldwin with an essay on this indispensable prophet. Kane tells us: ‘Baldwin insisted that the only way forward, the only way out [for America], was through a renovation of the self, and this could only be accomplished through deep communication and empathy’. Paul Kane is Professo…

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‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize 27:27

6M ago27:27

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This week on the ABR Podcast we conclude our three-episode special on the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the winning story, ‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps. The judges described ‘Pornwald’ as ‘a puzzle that tests the limits of realism with an often riotously deadpan sense of humour’. Jill Van Epps is a writer and filmmaker based in Br…

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'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize 33:25

7M ago33:25

33:25

This week on the ABR Podcast, we continue to celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the second of three episodes featuring the shortlist. This week’s story is ‘M.’ by Shelley Stenhouse. The judges had this to say about ‘M.’: ‘Wittily told, this rollicking tale set in New York City is at once a character study of the garrulou…

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‘A Body of Water’, a short story by Else Fitzgerald 18:17

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“Subject to his birth”: The biography of a prince' by Christopher Allen 9:00

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‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn 33:18

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‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ by Matthew Lamb 10:53

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‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’ by Mark Finnane 16:09

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‘“Shimmering multiple and multitude”: Keeping up with Judith Wright’ by Georgina Arnott 15:00

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‘The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb’ by Toby Davidson 19:28

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‘”Futile rage at nothing”: Sally Rooney’s most ambitious work to date’ by James Ley 12:09

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‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’ by Jonathan Ricketson 10:48

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‘Out of the loop: Relaying information across time’ by Robyn Arianrhod 11:48

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‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake 13:44

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'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein 13:11

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‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel 14:51

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‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt 12:31

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‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler 13:44

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Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher 10:21

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'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark 16:15

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'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes 21:56

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'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson 12:02

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‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens 12:59

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‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell 15:41

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‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane 19:25

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'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane 24:06

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‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize 27:27

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'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize 33:25

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