"Home & Away" on the Antipodean literature of Berlin for Stadtsprachen (festival keynote, auch auf deutsch)
"Schiller's Secret Beloved" on a literary love triangle in Thuringia for Paris Review (Daily)
"House of the Rising Hun" on Hungarian rightwing memory politics and Western anticommunism for The Baffler
"Truth to Power" on the Cold-War trope of "the dissident" for The Drift
"Anzac Abroad" on the militarisation of Australian identity for Coda
"Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag" on German, English, and Denglisch in Berlin for European Review of Books
"Unmasterable Past" on the German far right and the Dresden bombings for Coda
"Joseph Roth's City of Miniatures" on Roth's Berlin writing & the post-Covid city for Words Without Borders
"To see a city" on Czech author Daniela Hodrová, Prague and the Central European novel for European Review of Books
"Exposure" on chronic illness, masculinity, slowness and football for Meanjin
"The Spies of Others" on the West's uses and abuses of Stasi narratives for The Baffler
"A history of Berlin in five cafés" on Berlin's most iconic coffeehouses for Slow Travel Berlin
"Perpetual Motion Machine" on the history of fatigue and dreams of curing it for Hypocrite Reader
"What are Young Australians Searching For in Berlin?" for Kill Your Darlings
"An Egalitarian Estate" on radical social housing in Weimar Berlin for Exberliner (PDF here)
“Sydney’s other housing crisis” on Marrickville bird habitats for Sweaty City (available here)
"Berlin, After the Fall" on the local afterlives of German reunification for Meanjin (online)
“Marrickville’s sweatshops: An historical view” for re/work exhibition at AIRspace Projects (on request)
“Whatever happened to the arts of peace?” for Overland
“Saving history from the Ramsay Centre’s warriors” for Overland
“More than mates: Walt Whitman and the art of friendship” for Homer
“Snarking towards Bethlehem: The Gawker Manifesto That Wasn’t” for The Harvard Advocate
“MADE” for The Harvard Advocate
“The Leaves of Others” for Fifteen Minutes (The Harvard Crimson)
“We All Live Here Together” for Fifteen Minutes (The Harvard Crimson)
On Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley for History Today
On Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse for The Guardian
On the work of Lutz Seiler for Poetry
On Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck for The Baffler
On An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski for The Guardian
On Rombo by Esther Kinsky for New Left Review (Sidecar)
On Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Ilies for History Today
On Siblings by Brigitte Reimann for The Guardian
On The Interim by Wolfgang Hilbig for The Baffler
On City of Torment by Daniela Hodrová for European Review of Books
On Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai for New Left Review (Sidecar)
Round-up of Weimar Berlin pop history books for Slow Travel Berlin
On Porcelain by Durs Grünbein for LA Review of Books
On An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky for Cleveland Review of Books
On A Czech Dreambook by Ludvík Vaculík for Full Stop
On Danger Close (dir. Kriv Stenders) for Mekong Review
On Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber for Australian Book Review
On City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death, and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham for The Lifted Brow
On Never Look Away (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) for 4:3 Film
On Australianama by Samia Khatun for History Today
On Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860 by David Kemp for Mekong Review
On Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre (eds. Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan) for Newtown Review of Books
For the print-plus-online magazine The Berliner (formerly Exberliner)—where I have been Books Editor since 2020—I regularly publish interviews with authors and translators in addition to review roundups and a monthly column.
You can check it all out at my writer's profile; otherwise here are a few of my favourite pieces:
Interview with Cécile Wajsbrot
Interview with Uljana Wolf
Interview with Helen DeWitt
Interview with Jan Faktor
Interview with Fernanda Melchor
Interview with Samuel Clowes Huneke
Interview with Tess Lewis
Interview with Annett Gröschner
Column on finding books on the street
Column on the hatred of German literature
Column on the women in Kafka's life
Column on new books from the Czech Republic
Column on literary football writing
Column on abolish the book blurb!!
Column on autobahn rest stop literature
Roundup of Berlin books since 2002