# podcast feature (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover podcast feature. Page: Feed: --- ## [‘Backflip’ by Sam Keenan | The ABR Podcast #289](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=33148:backflip-by-sam-keenan-the-abr-podcast-289&catid=1559) _2026-08-19 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature ‘Backflip’ by New Zealand author Sam Keenan, which placed second in the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Set in a small New Zealand town in the 1980s, ‘Backflip’ tells the story of a young girl’s disappearance and the community’s attempt to smooth over this tragedy. This year’s judges called ‘Backflip’ a ‘remarkable feat of compression: a… ## [‘Literary critic as democratic role model’ by Varun Ghosh | The ABR Podcast #288](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=33057:literary-critic-as-democratic-role-model-by-varun-ghosh-the-abr-podcast-288&catid=1559) _2026-08-12 · Podcast_ This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature WA Senator Varun Ghosh’s essay, ‘Literary critic as democratic role model’, which discusses the relationship between literary criticism and politics. Ghosh argues that literary critique is crucial to the health of democracy. ‘A strong critical culture is protective of democracy’, he asserts. While there are limits to the comparison between literary… ## [‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery | The ABR Podcast #287](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32996:c-q-d-by-laura-elvery-the-abr-podcast-287&catid=1559) _2026-08-05 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the winner of the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, ‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery. The young narrator of ‘C.Q.D.’ is on board the Carpathia in the year 1912. The ship is racing towards the Titanic after hearing its distress signal. Will it reach the Titanic in time? This year’s Jolley judges called ‘C.Q.D.’ an ‘iceberg of a story: it carries its heft… ## [‘The architecture of erasure’ by Elise Westin | The ABR Podcast #286](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32994:the-architecture-of-erasure-by-elise-westin-the-abr-podcast-286&catid=1559) _2026-07-29 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Elise Westin’s essay, titled ‘The architecture of erasure’. The third-place winner of the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, ‘The architecture of erasure’ merges personal intimacy with an examination of the systematic Soviet erasure of Ukrainians. Westin recounts her inability to find records of her great-grandparents’ names at the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv.… ## [‘The lie and the law: The biography of a rogue’ by Lucy Sussex | The ABR Podcast #285](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32941:the-lie-and-the-law-the-biography-of-a-rogue-by-lucy-sussex-the-abr-podcast-285&catid=1559) _2026-07-22 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , Lucy Sussex reviews The Stained Man by Patrick Mullins, a biography of the first Labor Lord Mayor of Sydney, Richard Meagher. Mullins’s book is a ‘genuinely riveting and fascinating’ account of Meagher’s ‘mania for restitution’ following his scandalous errors of judgement as a prominent lawyer. Disbarred after his unethical defence of George Dean, a ferryman accused… ## [‘And yet: Towards disabled literary utopia’ by Jessica White | The ABR Podcast #284](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32937:and-yet-towards-disabled-literary-utopia-by-jessica-white-the-abr-podcast-284&catid=1559) _2026-07-15 · Podcast_ This week, on The ABR Podcast , Jessica White reviews Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers that attempts to ‘represent as wide a variety of multiply marginalised disabled experiences as possible’. The writing collected in this book is multivalent, taking a ‘welcome intersectional approach to anthologising’. Yet, despite growing interest in disabled people’s writing, White notes, we are… ## [‘“Depths that we today are barely able to imagine”: The quality of disinterestedness on the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’ by Clinton Fernandes | The ABR Podcast #282](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32925:depths-that-we-today-are-barely-able-to-imagine-the-quality-of-disinterestedness-on-the-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states-of-america-by-clinton-fernandes-the-abr-podcast-282&catid=1559) _2026-07-07 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Clinton Fernandes’s commentary titled ‘“Depths that we today are barely able to imagine”: The quality of disinterestedness on the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’. Noting that the Trump Cabinet is ‘the wealthiest in modern history, with thirteen billionaires and a combined net worth of US$60 billion’, Fernandes asks, ‘How does Trump’s… ## [‘A deeper kind of itch: Poetry of the mirrored plate’ by Lisa Goldsworthy | The ABR Podcast #282](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32916:a-deeper-kind-of-itch-poetry-of-the-mirrored-plate-by-lisa-goldsworthy-the-abr-podcast-282&catid=1559) _2026-07-05 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , Lisa Gorton reviews Tomorrow by Peter Goldsworthy. A poetic companion to Goldsworthy’s ‘expansive, thoughtful’ memoir The Cancer Finishing School , Tomorrow braids the everyday experience with the ironic, the meaningful, the terrifying: the poetry ‘charges familiar things with terror’, Gorton writes. But the strength of Goldsworthy’s poetry lies in the unexpected; in… ## [‘Vulnerable to place: Navigating deep blue history’ by Killian Quigley | The ABR Podcast #281](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32862:vulnerable-to-place-navigating-deep-blue-history-by-killian-quigley-the-abr-podcast-281&catid=1559) _2026-06-24 · Podcast_ This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Killian Quigley’s review of Plotting the Oceans: Stories of powerful maps and their makers by Sarah Hamylton. Hamylton’s sharp insights emerge from her deeply embodied knowledge of her environment, Quigley asserts. In an era where ‘drones, algorithms, and artificial intelligence are transforming how maps are made’, such ‘situated knowledge’ is… ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AeRRRwaPrfDD) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [‘Tumbleweed: How the West was lost’ by Maria Takolander | The ABR Podcast #280](https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?view=article&id=32853:tumbleweed-how-the-west-was-lost-by-maria-takolander-the-abr-podcast-280&catid=1559) _2026-06-17 · Podcast_ This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the runner-up in the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, titled ‘Tumbleweed: How the West was Lost’, by Maria Takolander. Wide-ranging and delightfully digressive, Takolander’s encyclopaedic essay uses the modest tumbleweed as a lens through which to examine Western mythology, colonial violence, environmental crises, and Tsarist Russia, among much else. ‘The…