With Vahideh Eisaei, Khalid Warsame, Hana Assafiri, Sofija Stefanovic, Alice Pung, Sam Pang and George Megalogenis.
Read moreThe Unending Absence – Melbourne's Immigration Museum
Speaking from inside the immigrant experience, catching times and spaces of immigration before they're squeezed, solidified into an assortment of familiar, 'tamed' narratives... A six-part audio work.
Read moreIn conversation with Sarah Sentilles
Sarah's fourth book Draw Your Weapons is really really worth reading. We are at The Wheeler Centre talking about (perma)war, resistance, looking and not looking, the 'civil contract of photography', limits of empathy.
Read moreAXIOMATIC out May 2018 from Brow Books
The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo enclosures.
Read moreA somewhat more academic look at my love for Svetlana Alexievich's books
From a special 'Writing and Trauma' issue of Text Journal edited by Bridget Haylock and Suzanne Hermanoczki, October 2017.
Read moreShelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union
I have a short piece on my family's experiences in Uzbekistan during WWII in this new collection.
Read moreChatting with heretics – 'Future Tense' on Radio National
Interview with Antony Funnell on our narrative fixation.
Read moreLanguage woken up
My extended review of Michael Green's and Andre Dao's (eds) They Cannot Take the Sky.
Read moreToby Litt's Mutants
Brief review in Text Journal.
Read moreOne F (in Hofmann) – and U-C-K the Consequences
Thanks to Catriona Menzies-Pike for publishing this essay.
Read moreNecessary Poet: Joseph Brodsky
A new podcast series from The Poet's Voice. I spoke about Brodsky.
Read more'Svetlana Alexeviech didn’t make it to the Royal Commission'
Extract from a public lecture given as part of the 2016 Wednesday Lecture Series Hosted by Raimond Gaita.
Read more'What the Essayist Spills', Sydney Review of Books
"What are essays for? They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. "
Read moreMelbourne Prize for Literature
'No Skin', my essay revisiting the idea of traumascapes a decade later, has been shortlisted in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Read more‘The Hard Bits in Literary Non-Fiction’ @ Writers Vic
Theatrics: The Wit and Wisdom of Jewish Literature
I was commissioned by the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival to write an original dramatic monologue.
Read moreNo Dogs, No Fruit, No Firearms, No Professors
I've been wanting to write this piece for years.
Read moreReview of Sarah Helm’s ‘If This Is a Woman’
Sarah Helm's If This Is a Woman is a masterpiece.
Read moreWomen of Letters
For Women of Letters I was asked to write a letter to my Rude Awakening.
Read moreSally Smart’s Shadow Trees Installation
Melbourne, how come you haven't noticed Sally Smart's Shadow Trees Installation!?
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