Books
- Escapism and old favourites: silver linings for the book industry as Australian sales surge – The Guardian, 2020
- Weather by Jenny Offill: A powerful portrait of climate anxiety – New Scientist, 2020
- How a flawed mentality led to Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise: on Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley – New Scientist, 2020
- Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – New Scientist, 2019
- Zadie Smith’s essays range from captivating to devastating – Good Weekend, 2018
- Maxine Beneba Clark’s The Hate Race – The Guardian, 2016
Film/TV
- Can an Asian diaspora Facebook group be good TV? – The Guardian, 2021
- Dick Johnson Is Dead: A moving tragicomic film about dementia – New Scientist, 2020
- The Farewell explores the ethics of lying about a cancer diagnosis – New Scientist, 2019
- The Heights review – finally, a warm, complex and credible Australian soap opera – The Guardian, 2019
- What the new Black Mirror will bring – New Scientist, 2019
- The Cry isn’t just the newest crime drama, it’s an addictive nightmare – Junkee, 2019
Science/Tech
- ‘Health systems should be prepared’: doctors brace for tsunami of long ccovid – The Guardian, 2021
- ‘I’m living proof’: how Melbourne’s drug-injecting room has changed – and saved – lives – The Guardian, 2021
- ‘No discussion’: significant increase in women being induced for low-risk births – The Guardian, 2021
- The hunt for patient zero: Where did the coronavirus outbreak start? – New Scientist, 2020
- How abusers are exploiting smart home devices – VICE, 2019
- Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump? – New Scientist, 2019
- When ethical hacking can’t compete – The Atlantic, 2015
Essays
- Where are you from? – Griffith Review, 2018
- A Good Place: The podcast that interviews inanimate objects – The Outline, 2018
- Shanghai’s Long Museum – The Saturday Paper, 2018
- Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya – The Saturday Paper, 2017
- Literary Cities: Paris – Writers Bloc, 2016
Profiles
- A larrikin with a moral compass: beloved arts advocate and trade unionist Paddy Garritty dies with Covid-19 – The Guardian, 2020
- Patricia Piccinini’s changing nature – The Saturday Paper, 2018
- Li Cunxin brings Ben Stevenson’s ‘Swan Lake’ to Queensland – The Saturday Paper, 2017
- Writer Jessica Friedmann on postnatal depression and motherhood – The Saturday Paper, 2017
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