Catriona Menzies-Pike

The Monastery and the Monaro

How do Australian writers find an overseas readership? Reviewing the highly acclaimed Stone Yard Devotional, Catriona Menzies-Pike surveys the critical oversights and abstractions that allow stories from and about Australia to travel the world.

Enemies of Goodness

Do ‘viral’ essays still hold up in print? Catriona Menzies-Pike considers the recent books of two critics – Lauren Oyler and Becca Rothfeld – who forged their reputations in a digital literary culture whose channels of circulation are now closing....

Everything is Somehow Alike

Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld proposes to examine what happens to aesthetic experience in a culture dominated by algorithms. Reviewing Chayka’s book, Catriona Menzies-Pike finds its solutions flawed yet indicative of our wider structural blindspots.

As Pluck Would Have It 

What do Barbie and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? In this review of Pip Williams’ fiction, Catriona Menzies-Pike catalogues the tropes by which popular feminism sells women short.

Fool's Gold

Only Feelings

Critic Swallows Book

To call into question the literary value of Dalton’s fiction is not to disqualify the pleasure and imaginative release that hundreds of thousands of readers have found in his novels, especially Boy Swallows Universe; it is to take that popularity ...

A Fluctuating Charm: An Uncertain Grace

Never In Print

Pick Your Own Misadventure

3 February 2017 – Don’t Get Lost In A Book

Week in Review: 16 December 2016

James Bradley: Fitting the Pieces Together

James Bradley speaks with SRB editor Catriona Menzies-Pike about the shape of a writing career in progress.

A Note from the Editor

Being Geniuses Together

Long Hot Summer

Must-Reads and Don’t-Misses

Reflections on the Stella Count

Writing, Editing: An Interview with Ellen van Neerven

Little Things I Should Have Said And Done

Sofie Laguna: ‘There Is No Reader In The Room’

Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna speaks to the SRB about her fiction and the forces that have shaped her as a writer.

‘Foul-Mouthed Tirade’: Mark Latham at the Melbourne Writers Festival

21 August 2015: Places beyond Earth

Librarians’ Tea Party

7 August 2015: Critical Ecology