Flipping the bird: which is what I did. Read on to find out how. The Guardian, June 15, 2025

The Frank Moorhouse Reading Room: the start of an ongoing series of essays by Australian writers – The Sydney Review of Books, September 5, 2024

Menopause + nose-piercing: not its actual title, but you get the gist – The Guardian, August 24, 2024

Snakes on bush paths: on summer in the Blue Mountains – The Guardian, January 13, 2024

I don’t want my children gone, but … – The Guardian, August 28, 2023

Mum and the joy of reading – The Guardian, June 26 2020

I will not be doing it again: reflections on anxiety in Generation Z – Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves, January 2022

Tracker – the most important Australian book of the 21st century – The Guardian, July 13 2020

Ruth Park brings Sydney to life – The Guardian, March 5 2019

The difficulty is the point – an essay on teaching reading to non-readers – The Guardian, December 24 2017

Georgia Blain’s last book, The Museum of Words – Sydney Morning Herald/Age, August 11 2017

Consider This – Helen Garner’s Cosmo Cosmolino – Sydney Review of Books, 13 May 2016

Fully present, utterly connected: Joan London’s The Golden Age – Sydney Review of Books, 31 November 2014

The Worst That Could Happen: George Saunders’ Tenth of December – Sydney Review of Books, 12 November 2013