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31 Dec 2025
We asked five Jewish Australians to reflect on a simple question, with an inevitably complex answer: ‘After Bondi, how do you feel and why?’ We thank them for their generosity of sprit in taking the time, at this awful time, to find the words.
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31 Dec 2025
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the five poets selected for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony held in Melbourne in February. Keep an eye on the ABR website for more details!
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31 Dec 2025
2025ABR Rising Star Jonathan Ricketson reviews How to End a Story, the collected diaries of Helen Garner. Garner inspires him: with her deliberate, practiced skill of noticing, she reminds us that ‘the textures of daily life are worth recording’.
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8 Dec 2025
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the twelve poets selected for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize longlist.
The shortlist will be announced on 30 Dec 2025, and the winner will be announced at an event in early Feb. Keep an eye on our website for more details!
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1 Dec 2025
Which books gripped the cultural imagination in 2025?
See what ABR critics and writers had to say:
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1 Dec 2025
Julie Ewington reviews Tate Modern’s ‘grand survey’ of Australian Indigenous artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and in fiction James Ley reviews the new Trent Dalton, Julie Janson reviews William J. Byrne’s The Warrumbar, and Geordie Williamson reviews Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour
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