This week on The ABR Podcast, Matthew Lamb reviews Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, as told by award-winning investigative journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Noting Musk’s tendency to favour ‘the virtual over the physical world’, the book gives a ‘blow-by-blow’ account of Musk’s shortcomings while leading X. Matthew Lamb is a writer and the author of Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths. Listen to Matthew Lamb’s ‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ published in the January-February issue of ABR.

This week on The ABR Podcast, Matthew Lamb reviews Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, as told by award-winning investigative journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Noting Musk&rsquo;s tendency to favour &lsquo;the virtual over the physical world&rsquo;, the book gives a &lsquo;blow-by-blow&rsquo; account of Musk&rsquo;s shortcomings while leading X. Matthew Lamb is a writer and the author of Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths. Listen to Matthew Lamb&rsquo;s &lsquo;Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter&rsquo; <a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/1012-january-february-2025-no-472/13405-matthew-lamb-reviews-character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac">published in the January-February issue of ABR.</a>

Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

For more information about ABR, visit our website, www.australianbookreview.com.au

Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.
For more information about&nbsp;ABR, visit our website, <a href="http://www.australianbookreview.com.au">www.australianbookreview.com.au</a>

Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

The ABR Podcast

ABR is delighted to introduce its brand-new podcast, The ABR Podcast.

Released fortnightly every Wednesday, The ABR Podcast will feature a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on the iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

ABR&nbsp;is delighted to introduce its brand-new podcast,&nbsp;The ABR Podcast.
Released fortnightly every Wednesday,&nbsp;The ABR Podcast&nbsp;will feature a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on the iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

 ‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’  by Matthew Lamb

This week on The ABR Podcast, Patrick Mullins reviews What’s the Big Idea?, edited by Anna Chang and Alice Grundy, and Age of Doubt, edited by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang. In What’s the Big Idea? essayists suggest changes to combat the myriad crises – from violence against women to climate catastrophe – that Australia faces. The writers in Age of Doubt analyse the ways trust has been eroded in Australia, and how the country might restore it. Writes Mullins, ‘Time will tell whether Australians will take the opportunities presented’. Patrick Mullins is a writer and visiting fellow at the ANU’s National Centre of Biography. Here is Patrick Mullins with ‘Denial, obfuscation, defiance: Two earnest books on the challenges ahead’, published in the April issue of ABR.

This week on The ABR Podcast, Patrick Mullins reviews What&rsquo;s the Big Idea?, edited by Anna Chang and Alice Grundy, and Age of Doubt, edited by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang. In What&rsquo;s the Big Idea? essayists suggest changes to combat the myriad crises &ndash; from violence against women to climate catastrophe &ndash; that Australia faces. The writers in Age of Doubt analyse the ways trust has been eroded in Australia, and how the country might restore it. Writes Mullins, &lsquo;Time will tell whether Australians will take the opportunities presented&rsquo;. Patrick Mullins is a writer and visiting fellow at the ANU&rsquo;s National Centre of Biography. Here is Patrick Mullins with &lsquo;Denial, obfuscation, defiance: Two earnest books on the challenges ahead&rsquo;, published in the April issue of ABR.

 ‘Denial, obfuscation, defiance: Two earnest books on the challenges ahead’ by Patrick Mullins

This week on The ABR Podcast, Andrea Goldsmith reveals her unread books. These are those works, explains Goldsmith, that ‘you should have read and have always wanted to read – but haven’t.’ They are not, mind you, all books that she intends on reading: ‘I will go to my grave having not finished Ulysses, but even in my failure I am far from ignorant about the book. … because Ulysses is part of our cultural capital, I could converse about Ulysses more than adequately.’ Andrea Goldsmith is a Melbourne-based novelist and reviewer. Here is Andrea Goldsmith with ‘My Unread Books’, published in the March issue of ABR.

This week on The ABR Podcast, Andrea Goldsmith reveals her unread books. These are those works, explains Goldsmith, that &lsquo;you should have read and have always wanted to read &ndash; but haven&rsquo;t.&rsquo; They are not, mind you, all books that she intends on reading: &lsquo;I will go to my grave having not finished Ulysses, but even in my failure I am far from ignorant about the book. &hellip; because Ulysses is part of our cultural capital, I could converse about Ulysses more than adequately.&rsquo; Andrea Goldsmith is a Melbourne-based novelist and reviewer. Here is Andrea Goldsmith with &lsquo;My Unread Books&rsquo;, published in the March issue of ABR.

‘My Unread Books’ by Andrea Goldsmith

This week on The ABR Podcast, Ebony Nilsson unearths the letters that Robert Menzies received from the Australian public during the 1950s Petrov Affair. Letters included everything from warnings to exhalations of relief to expressions of concern for the Petrovs’ dog. Ebony Nilsson is a historian of migration and security during the Cold War and the author of Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West. Listen to ‘“Congratulations Bob”: The Petrov Affair and the Australian public’, published in the March issue of ABR.

This week on The ABR Podcast, Ebony Nilsson unearths the letters that Robert Menzies received from the Australian public during the 1950s Petrov Affair. Letters included everything from warnings to exhalations of relief to expressions of concern for the Petrovs&rsquo; dog. Ebony Nilsson is a historian of migration and security during the Cold War and the author of Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West. Listen to &lsquo;&ldquo;Congratulations Bob&rdquo;: The Petrov Affair and the Australian public&rsquo;, <a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/1013-march-2025-no-473/13669-congratulations-bob-the-petrov-affair-and-the-australian-public-by-ebony-nilsson">published in the March issue of ABR</a>.

‘Let That Sink In!: Fantasy without consequence at Twitter’ by Matthew Lamb

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