أفضل بودكاسات The Abr Podcast (2024)

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‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake 13:44

13d ago13:44

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi. The Art of Power, explains Lake, tells how Pelosi, ‘a mother of five and a housewife from California’, became the first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Marilyn Lake is a Professori…

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'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein 13:11

20d ago13:11

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Josh Bornstein discusses corporate cancel culture. Bornstein argues that ‘Companies now routinely censor their employees far more repressively than any liberal democratic government does’. Josh Bornstein is an award-winning workplace lawyer and writer. His first book, Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroy…

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‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel 14:51

26d ago14:51

14:51

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Paul Giles reviews Juice by Tim Winton. Juice represents a creative sidestep for the four-time Miles Franklin Award recipient, being both his longest novel and his first venture into speculative fiction. Paul Giles is Professor of English at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Listen to Paul Giles with ‘”…

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‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt 12:31

1M ago12:31

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Johanna Leggatt reviews Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden. Leggatt quotes from the book: ‘There will be another pandemic. It might not happen for another century, or it might happen very soon.’ Johanna Leggatt is a Melbourne-based write…

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‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler 13:44

1M ago13:44

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Michael Winkler reviews Chinese Postman by Brian Castro. ‘Reading Castro for plot is like listening to Bob Dylan for melody,’ says Winkler of the prize-winning author of eleven novels. Michael Winkler was the winner of the 2016 Calibre Essay Prize and is the author of Grimmish. Listen to Michael Winkler’s ‘Giving up mi…

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Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher 10:21

2M ago10:21

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher. Bridget Griffen-Foley is the founder of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University and has recently co-edited the fifth edition of …

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'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark 16:15

2M ago16:15

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark takes us to Papua New Guinea, the country of his childhood. Spark describes returning to an independent PNG as an historian and tour guide, and the noticeable cooling of Australian attitudes to the place and its ‘intoxicating possibilities’. Listen to Seumas Spark’s ‘Drinking from coconuts: When Australian…

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'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes 21:56

2M ago21:56

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This week on The ABR Podcast we reflect on the occupation and liberation of East Timor twenty-five years on from that extraordinary rupture. Clinton Fernandes draws on secret records released last month showing attempts by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to change the Australian War Memorial’s history of East Timor. Clinton Ferna…

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'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson 12:02

2M ago12:02

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This week on The ABR Podcast Geordie Williamson reviews Highway 13, a collection of short stories by Fiona McFarlane. Each story is concerned with murder, that ‘ultimate de-creative act’, and might be thought of as true crime, given the real-world familiarity of characters, places, plots. Geordie Williamson is a literary critic, editor and the auth…

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‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens 12:59

2M ago12:59

12:59

This week on The ABR Podcast, Jeremy Martens reviews They Called It Peace: Worlds of imperial violence by Lauren Benton. The book examines what Benton terms imperial ‘small wars’, those conflicts which have historically not figured in war museums or national histories, but were nonetheless lethal and, explains Martens, ‘characterised settler empire…

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‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell 15:41

3M ago15:41

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This week on The ABR Podcast, Kevin Bell addresses the crisis in housing in Australia – a crisis which he says is at risk of ‘turning into a social and economic catastrophe’. Kevin Bell is a self-described baby boomer who, in his role as a Supreme Court judge, wrote a number of influential judgments on human rights and housing. He is a former direc…

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‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane 19:25

3M ago19:25

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Joel Deane considers the black and white politics of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Deane explains that Dutton considers these politics a ‘police trait’ that he developed while in the force, and one that now serves him well in politics, especially when making necessary snap judgements. But will this style endear him t…

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'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane 24:06

3M ago24:06

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Paul Kane marks the centenary of James Baldwin with an essay on this indispensable prophet. Kane tells us: ‘Baldwin insisted that the only way forward, the only way out [for America], was through a renovation of the self, and this could only be accomplished through deep communication and empathy’. Paul Kane is Professo…

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‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize 27:27

3M ago27:27

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This week on the ABR Podcast we conclude our three-episode special on the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the winning story, ‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps. The judges described ‘Pornwald’ as ‘a puzzle that tests the limits of realism with an often riotously deadpan sense of humour’. Jill Van Epps is a writer and filmmaker based in Br…

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'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize 33:25

4M ago33:25

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This week on the ABR Podcast, we continue to celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the second of three episodes featuring the shortlist. This week’s story is ‘M.’ by Shelley Stenhouse. The judges had this to say about ‘M.’: ‘Wittily told, this rollicking tale set in New York City is at once a character study of the garrulou…

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'First Snow' by Kerry Greer | The Jolley Prize 32:26

4M ago32:26

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Beginning this week on the ABR Podcast, we celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist over three episodes. In each episode, one of the three shortlisted authors will read their story – also published in the August issue of ABR. The overall winner of the Jolley Prize will be announced at an event at Gleebooks in Sydney on Au…

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'Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape' by Robyn Arianrhod 15:02

4M ago15:02

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Robyn Arianrhod considers the state of popular science writing in the Australian literary landscape. She argues that in-depth science writing with popular appeal and literary value is increasingly hard to find in Australia. And where exemplary works of this kind are published, they are rarely recognised with reviews or l…

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'Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia' by Georgina Arnott 46:13

4M ago46:13

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature an essay from the ABR archive: ‘Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia’ by Georgina Arnott. In this essay, Arnott considers how the field of Australian history will be reshaped by emerging links between British slavery in the Caribbean and early settlers to the Australian colonies. Georgi…

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'Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America' by Timothy J. Lynch 11:43

5M ago11:43

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Timothy J. Lynch considers whether the United States is on the path to a second civil war, as forecast by Nick Bryant in The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself. In his book, Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, argues that hate and paranoia form a central core of the American experience. Timot…

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‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’ by Nick Hordern 13:54

5M ago13:54

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On this week’s ABR Podcast, Nick Hordern tells the story of Mitty Lee-Brown, the Australian artist who went into self-imposed exile in 1968 to Ceylon, which in 1972 became Sri Lanka. Nick Hordern is a former diplomat and journalist, and the author of several books, including World War Noir: Sydney’s Unpatriotic War. Listen to ‘Mitty Lee-Brown: arti…

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'Pascoe's vision: Musings on life and Country' by Seumas Spark 10:28

5M ago10:28

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark reviews Black Duck: A year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood. Spark writes: ‘Black Duck is two things: a record of a year in the life of the farm, and a collection of musings on life and Country’. Seumas Spark is an historian at Monash University. Listen to Spark’s ‘Pascoe's vision: Musings on lif…

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‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham 36:01

5M ago36:01

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature the third-place winner in this year’s Calibre Essay Prize, Nicole Hasham’s ‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’. In preparation for the essay, Walkley Award-winning journalist Nicole Hasham travelled to the site of Wakathuni, the Pilbara mountain also known as Tom Price that was blown up in 1974 …

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Peter Rose reviews 'Hazzard and Harrower: The letters' edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham 25:23

6M ago25:23

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Peter Rose reviews Hazzard and Harrower: The letters, edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham. The correspondence between writers Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower ran from 1966 to 2008 and, in its unedited form, amounted to 400,000 words. Editors Susan Wyndham Brigitta Olubas have trimmed it down: ‘For the time…

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'Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse's battle to defend authors' by Matthew Lamb 11:25

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Frank Moorhouse biographer Matthew Lamb tells of his subject’s battle to defend Australian authors and the founding of Copyright Agency in 1974. Listen to Matthew Lamb with ‘Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse’s battle to defend authors’, published in the June issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv…

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Natasha Sholl's 'Hold your nerve' 22:11

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Last month ABR announced the winner, runner-up and third-place recipient of the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. In this week’s podcast we are delighted to present the 2024 Calibre runner-up, ‘Hold Your Nerve’, by Melbourne writer Natasha Sholl. Natasha Sholl is a writer and lapsed lawyer. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The …

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‘Where is Nancy?’ Paradoxes in the pursuit of freedom by Marilyn Lake 13:44

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'Feeding the beast: On corporate cancel culture' by Josh Bornstein 13:11

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‘Schooled in doubleness’: Paul Giles reviews Tim Winton’s enthralling new novel 14:51

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‘We right to go?’ Heeding the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic by Johanna Leggatt 12:31

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‘Giving up mirrors: Brian Castro’s soaring stridulation’ by Michael Winkler 13:44

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Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews ‘The Men Who Killed the News’ by Eric Beecher 10:21

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'Drinking from coconuts: When Australians weren’t scared of Papua New Guinea' by Seumas Spark 16:15

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'History without vexed issues: Liquidating our memories of East Timor', by Clinton Fernandes 21:56

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'A chorus of souls: Fiona McFarlane’s discursive theodicy' by Geordie Williamson 12:02

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‘Raid and truce: Private violence and imperial conquest’ by Jeremy Martens 12:59

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‘On our moral watch: The disgrace of homelessness in Australia’ by Kevin Bell 15:41

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‘The Manichaean Candidate: Peter Dutton’s black and white politics’ by Joel Deane 19:25

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'James Baldwin this time: The centenary of an indispensable prophet’ by Paul Kane 24:06

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‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps | The Jolley Prize 27:27

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'M.' by Shelley Stenhouse | The Jolley Prize 33:25

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'First Snow' by Kerry Greer | The Jolley Prize 32:26

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'Beyond the mundane: Popular science writing in our literary landscape' by Robyn Arianrhod 15:02

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'Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia' by Georgina Arnott 46:13

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'Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America' by Timothy J. Lynch 11:43

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‘Mitty Lee-Brown: artist in exile: From a boarding house in Woollahra to Sri Lanka’ by Nick Hordern 13:54

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'Pascoe's vision: Musings on life and Country' by Seumas Spark 10:28

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‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’ by Nicole Hasham 36:01

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Peter Rose reviews 'Hazzard and Harrower: The letters' edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham 25:23

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'Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse's battle to defend authors' by Matthew Lamb 11:25

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Natasha Sholl's 'Hold your nerve' 22:11

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