Our Team

Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

Paul Keating tops the list. Ted Theodore wins high praise. And Peter Costello rates highly, too.

Ross Fitzgerald

Paul Kelly has won the $20,000 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics for his book Triumph and Demise.

The Blue Guitar extends John Banville’s ongoing inquiry into the nature of representation.

Stephanie Bishop

Seveneves and Aurora both envisage futuristic space travel but reach rather different conclusions.

James Bradley

Randolph Stow was both a literary visionary and a destroyer of his own art.

Nicolas Rothwell

It’s a celebration of all things Randolph Stow, as Text Classics republishes To the Islands and Tourmaline.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: Stephen Romei

Graeme Clark told his Year One teacher: ‘When I grow up I want to fix ears.’ And he did.

John Ross

It’s all very well outlining the problems with the global economy — but what about fixing them?

Dennis Altman

There is a sense in Patrick deWitt’s third novel of farce playing itself out in a low-oxygen environment.

Delia Falconer

The dynamic duo of early literature put children first in their celebrated works.