Selected reviews:

MAX DUPAIN: A PORTRAT by Helen Ennis - Guardian Australia (2024)

THE SILVER RIVER by Jim Moginie - Guardian Australia (2024)

FRANK MOORHOUSE: A LIFE by Catharine Lumby and FRANK MOORHOUSE: STRANGE PATHS by Matthew Lamb - Guardian Australia (2023)

APHRODITE’S BREATH by Susan Johnson - Canberra Times (2023)

THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEING by Rick Rubin - Canberra Times (2023)

SYDNEY: A BIOGRAPHY by Louis Nowra - Canberra Times (2023)

ART IS LIFE by Jerry Saltz - Canberra Times (2023)

FAITH, HOPE AND CARNAGE by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan - Canberra Times (2022)

OF MARSUPIALS AND MEN by Alistair Paton - Canberra Times (2022)

LOSING FACE by George Haddad - Canberra Times (2022)

7 1/2 by Christos Tsiolkas - Canberra Times (2021)

THE FIFTH SEASON by Philip Salom - Canberra Times (2020)

BELOW DECK by Sophie Hardcastle - Canberra Times (2019)

THE BREEDING SEASON by Amanda Niehous - Canberra Times (2019)

ALLEGRA IN THREE PARTS by Suzanne Daniels - Canberra Times (2019)

HITCH by Kathryn Hind - Canberra Times (2019)

Selected nonfiction:

‘My 92-year-old father was allowed to die in his NSW home, but many others aren’t so lucky’ - Guardian Australia (2023)

‘He lacked boundaries’: Bertie Blackman’s life with a famous father - Sydney Morning Herald (2022)

After a night in a medical tent unable to stand, I felt a soft and unmistakable warmth - love - Guardian Australia (2022)

Dying of Covid, my 93-year-old artist father was given hours to live. Surely he couldn’t paint himself out of this one? - Guardian Australia (2022)

The idea of breathing: on being an artist in regional Australia - Guardian Australia (2022)

Starting from not-knowing: an interview with Nardi Simpson - rest magazine (2021)

Birds, frogs and sunset walks: how a wetlands project transformed the NSW town of Goulburn - Guardian Australia (2021)

Fearless: on Christos Tsiolkas - in Reading like an Australian Writer published by New South Books (2021)

Illumination and love on the page - Canberra Times (2020)

The boy and the mountain - Chicago Quarterly Review: the Australian issue (2020)

Opening doors to goodness and peace - Canberra Times (2020)

Australian writers on spring time - Sydney Morning Herald (2019)

The gift of a mother - 3AM Magazine (2019)

What I’m reading - Meanjin (2018)

Free yourself from the limitations of specialisation - ArtsHub (2018)

My infinitively beautiful purpose - Canberra Times (2014)

The fine art of survival - Sydney Morning Herald (2013)

More than just a flag in the streets - Overland (2013)

The little room of danger and depth - The Millions (2011)