Gabriel García Ochoa reports back from Mexico following the US election in his article 'The City of Palaces' which appears in the January-February issue of Australian Book Review. For more ABR Podcasts visit: www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcasts/…r-podcast The ABR Podcast is available via SoundCloud and iTunes. ABR Podcast intro music by David McCooey Other music by Danosongs: (www.danosongs.com)and Bensound.com Comments by Donald Trump on Mexicans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo-7ISmwAi0 ..read more

Peter Rose interviews American Soprano Amber Wagner for the ABR Podcast following the first cycle of Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', which is being presented in Melbourne by Opera Australia. Amber Wagner plays the role of Sieglinde in the second opera 'Die Walküre'. For more ABR Podcasts visit: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcasts/the-abr-podcast The ABR Podcast is available via SoundCloud and iTunes ..read more

In Washington DC, Peter Rose and regular ABR theatre critic Ian Dickson discussed the career and legacy of Edward Albee, the great American playwright who died on Friday 16 September, aged 88. For more ABR Podcasts visit: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/podcasts/the-abr-podcast ..read more

Madelaine Lucas was the overall winner of the 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Ruins', and received $7,000 for first place. Here she reads an extract of her story, the full version available on the ABR website at: https://bit.ly/2QYABpu. Sharmini Aphrodite was placed second for her story 'Between the Mountain and the Sea' and Claire Aman placed third for her story 'Vasco'. For more information on the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, as well as the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and Calibre Essay Prize, click here: https://bit.ly/2Ahooqm ..read more

Peter Rose spoke to Beejay Silcox, recipient of the ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship, about developments at ABR since the revival of the magazine's second series in 1978. Beejay also discusses her Fellowship essay, 'Defying the moment', an engaging in-depth look at Australian magazine culture featuring interviews with several leading editors: Jonathan Green (Meanjin), Nick Feik (The Monthly), Amy Middleton (Archer), Mindy Gill (Peril), Rebecca Starford (Kill Your Darlings), and Jacinda Woodhead (Overland) You can read Beejay Silcox's essay 'Defying the moment' in the April 2018 issue of ABR ..read more

ABR's 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony was held at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 27 August. The event was compèred by ABR Deputy Editor, Amy Baillieu, with opening remarks from poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke. Ian Dickson announced that Josephine Rowe was this year's overall winner of the Jolley Prize for her story 'Glisk'. Anthony Lawrence placed second for his story 'Ash' and Jonathan Tel came third for his story 'The Water Calligrapher's Women'. Subscribers can read all three shortlisted stories in the August 2016 Fiction issue: https://www.australianbookreview.co ..read more

Each year, ABR’s prestigious Calibre Essay Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay, attracts some of the finest writers from Australia and overseas. Last year, the first prize of $5,000 was awarded to Michael Adams, an associate professor of Human Geography at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research at the University of Wollongong. Before that, Michael worked for environment NGOs, the national parks service, and Aboriginal organisations. His focus is on human–nature relationships, especially with Indigenous and local communities, and he likes full-immersion ..read more

Westerly Magazine’s editor Catherine Noske recently spent time at the ABR office in Melbourne, thanks to a week-long cultural exchange of sorts provided by the Australia Council. Catherine was offered insights into the inner workings of our magazine, and the processes leading up to the launch of our August Fiction issue. In the most recent ABR Podcast, Catherine spoke to Peter Rose about her time with ABR, and the exciting new developments at Westerly, including the launch of their latest issue, celebrating Indigenous writing and culture. To find out more about Australian Book Review visit o ..read more

ABR Deputy Editor Dilan Gunawardana spoke to Greg Sestero: actor, model, author and co-star of the 'best/worst film ever made', 'The Room' (2003). His award-winning memoir 'The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made' chronicles the film's production and Greg's relationship with its creator, the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau. It was recently adapted into a film directed by and starring James Franco as Tommy Wiseau. Audio from the trailer of the 'The Disaster Artist' is courtesy of Roadshow Films/A24. Background music is courtesy of www.bensound.com ..read more

From the Herbig family who lived in a hollowed out tree trunk to Dr Bosisto’s ‘Syrup of Red Gum’, from the trauma and regeneration of bushfires to the ill-fated Burnside Village tree, the Tree of Knowledge, and the ‘dig tree’ - how can we understand Australia’s complex relationship with the eucalypt? The October 2017 Environment issue of Australian Book Review includes the third ABR Eucalypt Fellowship essay, ‘Ambassadors from Another Time’ by South Australian novelist Stephen Orr, in which he examines Australia’s evolving understanding of these iconic trees. Stephen Orr studied ecology at un ..read more