Elke Power
Elke Power is the editor of Readings Monthly
Blog post — 19 Dec 2024
Nonfiction for people who love a deep dive into an issue
If you have a relative or friend who is thrilled (or thrilled to be appalled) by a political controversy, frequently regales you with analysis of the hot current affairs topics…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
Working for the Brand: How Corporations Are Destroying Free Speech by Josh Bornstein
In the latest eye-opening Australian nonfiction offering this year, high-profile Melbourne lawyer Josh Bornstein sounds the alarm regarding freedom of expression in the digital age. No, he’s not arguing for…
Review — 26 Aug 2024
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (50th anniversary edition) by Richard Scarry
It’s the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go this year and, like all the books in the Busytown series, it has lost none of…
Review — 26 Aug 2024
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (50th anniversary edition) by Richard Scarry
It’s the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go this year and, like all the books in the Busytown series, it has lost none of…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
Translations by Jumaana Abdu
The seemingly effortless flow of Jumaana Abdu’s Translations is wonderfully deceptive; beneath their beautiful arrangements, her words are muscular and precise. From the beginning, Abdu sweeps the reader into the…
Review — 29 Jul 2024
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (and Some Things You Didn’t) by Briony Stewart
You can never be too prepared for certain questions. Luckily, if there are people in your life who are curious about a famous nocturnal dental enthusiast with wings, this new…
Review — 29 Jul 2024
John Berger and Me by Nikos Papastergiadis
The late John Berger will be known to many readers as the pillar of cultural criticism whose 1972 BBC series Ways of Seeing, and book of the same title…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Mental Health by Dr Billy Garvey
Developmental paediatrician and Melbourne local Dr Billy Garvey may already be known to many through the podcast he co-hosts with his good friend Nick McCormack, Pop Culture Parenting. For…
Review — 19 May 2024
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Some novels have such a powerful atmosphere that the sense of place and emotional weather stays with you forever, easily summoned to mind by the mere mention of the book’s…
Review — 21 Apr 2024
Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters by Brigitta Olubas & Susan Wyndham (eds)
Those who read the extract from Hazzard and Harrower in the April Readings Monthly will not be surprised to see it recommended here in the month of its release. While…
