These are some of the reviews that have appeared over the years in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian Magazine, The Australian Review of Books, and The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, among other places. I do not include academic reviews.
MICRONATIONS, by John Ryan, Simon Sellars, and George Dunford (The Australian, September 23, 2006).
EVENING IN THE PALACE OF REASON, by James Gaines (Weekend Australian, May 6-7, 2006).
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO Y, by Rebecca Huntley (Weekend Australian, March 18-24, 2006).
DESCARTES: THE LIFE OF RENÉ DESCARTES AND ITS PLACE IN HIS TIMES, by A. C. Grayling (Weekend Australian, Review Section, January 14-15, 2006).
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION (2001). A film by Jonathan Weiss, based on the novel by J. G. Ballard. Released by REEL23. Published in Ballardian (www.ballardian.com).
I AM ALIVE AND YOU ARE DEAD: A JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF PHILIP K. DICK, by Emmanuel Carrère (Weekend Australian, Review Section, October 22-23, 2005).
THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, by Ray Kurzweil (Weekend Australian, Review Section, December 17-18, 2005).
LEARNING TO LOVE SURVEILLANCE (Cosmos Magazine, August 2005)
MASTERS OF ILLUSION: THE WORLD BANK AND THE POVERTY OF NATIONS by Catherine Caufield (Australian Financial Review, 27-28/06/1998)
PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Jules Verne (Sydney Morning Herald, 1/04/1998)
FOOTPRINTS ON WATER Play by Matt Cameron – Stables Theatre, November 1999 (Sydney City Hub, 1999)
HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN by N. Katharine Hayles (Abaddon 2, 1999)
WAITING FOR THE BECKETT POLICE (Sagacity?, 1994). Review of all-Female version of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, by The Darlinghurst Theatre Company,
THE SILENT by Jack Dann (Sydney Morning Herald, 12/06/1999)
THE STRAIGHT STORY. Directed by David Lynch (Tribe Online, 2000)
THE ART OF DREAMING: THE NOVELS OF JACK DANN (Abaddon 2, 1999)
IN A FISHBONE CHURCH by Catherine Chidgey (The Australian Review of Books, 11/98)
AWAKENING THE ENTROPY WITHIN: THE NOVELS OF J.G. BALLARD (1999, Unpublished – Written for Series 2 of Babel Handbooks, which was discontinued. Covers Ballard’s work up until Cocaine Nights).
THE PRESTIGE by Christopher Priest (Sydney Morning Herald, December 2004)
NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR NEW MEDIA by Mark Hansen. (Metapsychology Online, 2004)
LISTENING TO THE MIND LISTENING: A Concert of Brain Music. (Sleepy Brain Online, 2004)
MISCELLANIA (dates unknown)
DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE, by Janette Turner Hospital.
H. P. LOVECRAFT: AGAINST THE WORLD; AGAINST LIFE, by Michel Houellebecq.
K., by Roberto Calasso.
MOREL’S INVENTION, by Aldolfo Bioy Casares.
BITE-SIZE CLASSICS (The Australian Magazine: ‘Culture Vulture’, 1998-2003)
- David Malouf: An Imaginary Life
- Mudrooroo: Wild Cat Falling
- Peter Carey: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
- Charles Bukowski: Post-Office
- William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
- Jack Kerouac: On The Road
- Marguerite Duras: The Lover
- David Lynch: Eraserhead
MUSIC REVIEWS (Daily Telegraph and The Australian Magazine)
- Mr Bungle: California
- Birthday Party: Prayers on Fire
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
- Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician
- Kim Salmon and the Business: Record
- Garth Brooks: Chris Gaines’ Greatest Hits
- Stone Temple Pilots: No. 4
- Lobsterman: Get with Lobsterman
REVIEWS FOR ABADDON
- Abaddon #1 – The Resurrected Man By Sean Williams. Living at the End of the World By Marina Benjamin. Disco 2000 Sarah Champion, ed. Quicker Than The Eye By Ray Bradbury
- Abaddon #2 – Dreaming Down Under By Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (eds.). How We Became Post-Human By N. Katherine Hayles. The Forest of Hours By Kerstin Ekman.
- Abaddon #3 – Dream/Life By Trent Parke. The Book of Changes By Norman Talbot. Paintings by John Montefiore
Articles for Independent Film-makers (IF Magazine)
- The Wog Boy (Dir. Aleksi Vellis). Feb-March 2000.
- Behind the Scenes: I, Robot (Dir. Alex Proyas).