Our Team

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

There are places in Australia that have powerful associations with poetry. Is Canberra one of them?

Ali Jane Smith

Garth Callender’s After the Blast shows that military service in Australian forces can be a true calling.

Paul Cleary

Stephen and Sally Damiani and their GP Leah Kaminsky tell the story of the struggle to save their son Massimo’s life.

John Ross

Congratulations to Bernard Cohen for winning the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing — and for what he did after.

a pair of ragged claws: Stephen Romei

Say what you like about the film industry, but our actors are knocking it out of the park, and craving a cold beer.

Toni Morrison is the supreme teller of the story of American violence, her latest novel reads like a fairytale.

John Freeman

Fear Drive My Feet, Peter Ryan’s classic of Australian literature of war, has been reissued.

Peter Pierce

This short piece from Milan Kundera belongs more firmly in the Gallic literary tradition than the Mitteleuropean.

It’s rare for the winner of a literary prize to be the unanimous choice of a judging panel.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

Running Out? will turn the hose on hotheads who predict Perth will soon become a ‘ghost metropolis’.

Richard King