2024
‘Best Australian Books of the 21st Century: As Chosen by 50 Experts’, The Conversation, 22 August 2024
‘Praiseworthy makes history: Alexis Wright is the first author to win the Miles Franklin and the Stella Prize for one book’, The Conversation, 1 August 2024
‘No longer pale, male and stale: your guide to the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist’, The Conversation, 1 August 2024 [Republished in The Guardian]
‘Khin Myint lost his sister to chronic illness. Were trauma and Australian racism the real culprits?’, The Conversation, 11 June 2024
‘Difficult Questions: An iterative collaboration’, Australian Book Review, 1 June 2024 [Paywalled]
‘Who brings a laptop with her to the hospital to give birth? Leslie Jamison interrogates motherhood, ambition and divorce’, The Conversation, 14 May 2024
‘Shelter from the Storm: Choosing between the convent and a life in the world’, Times Literary Supplement, 30 April 2024 [Paywalled]
‘Eggshell Skull revisited’, News and Reviews, 9 April 2024 [Paywalled]
‘My addiction to dystopias’, News and Reviews, 6 March 2024 [Paywalled]
‘The cost of this housing crisis: Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay ‘The Great Divide”, News and Reviews, 31 January 2024 [Paywalled]
2023
‘Astrid has strong opinions about the new novels from Melissa Broder and Jesmyn Ward’, News and Reviews, 6 December 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Lore vs Law: Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy’, Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2023, [Paywalled]
‘The Meanjin that might have been’, News and Reviews, 8 November 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Love in the Time of Colonisation’, News and Reviews, 11 October 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Reinventing Storytelling One Book at a Time: Rebecca Kuang’s Yellowface, Babel, and more’, News and Reviews, 2 August 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Helen Garner’s uncomfortable spare room’, News and Reviews, 28 June 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Yellowjackets: matriarchy, savagery, and 1990s nostalgia’, News and Reviews, 26 April 2023
‘Eda Gunaydin on precarity and her Turkish inheritance’, News and Reviews, 19 April 2023 [Paywalled]
‘The Aftermath: Stephanie Bishop’s alluring new novel’, Australian Book Review, April 2023
‘Astrid Edwards on Australian Literary Prizes: Problems and Cultures and Plans’, News and Reviews, 22 March 2023 [Paywalled]
‘Shady at best, arrogant at worst: Astrid Edwards discusses Garner’s diary trilogy’, News and Reviews, 18 January 2023 [Paywalled]
2022
‘Should Margaret Atwood have won The Booker Prize in 2019? Astrid Edwards says the answer is ‘no’’, News and Reviews, 16 November 2022 [Paywalled]
‘What the books you read as a child say about you years later’, The Age, 19 August 2022
‘Audio evolutions: Siobhán McHugh on podcasting’, Australian Book Review, April 2022
‘Lisa Taddeo: Animal Instinct’, February 2022, The Big Issue
2021
‘Giant of journalism Joan Didion is gone, and she’s left me angry’, 25 December 2021, Sydney Morning Herald
‘Education and elitism under the microscope in new Bri Lee book’, The Age, 23 June 2021
Contributor to Growing up Disabled in Australia edited by Carly Findlay, (February 2021) Black Inc
2020
‘A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu‘, Australian Book Review, August 2020
‘Mammoth by Chris Flynn’, Australian Book Review, May 2020
‘Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe’, Kill Your Darlings, 9 April 2020
‘Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle’, Australian Book Review, April 2020
‘Timely Medicine: One doctor’s piercing look at our system of healthcare’, The Age, 14 March 2020
‘The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha’, Kill Your Darlings, 11 March 2020
‘Essays of exploration and revelation prompt thoughts of all kinds’, The Age, 18 January 2020
2019
‘Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith’, Australian Book Review, December 2019
‘Beauty‘, The Saturday Paper, 23 November 2019
‘The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after warming by David Wallace-Wells’, ‘China Dependence’, AFA7, Australian Foreign Affairs, October 2019
‘Three Women‘, Australian Book Review, October 2019
‘Bruce Pascoe: The storyteller of ancient and modern’, The Age, 10 August 2019
‘Powerful stories that confront Black Saturday fires and their legacy’, The Age, 13 July 2019
‘Stop Being Reasonable‘, The Saturday Paper, 18 May 2019
‘Astrid Edwards reviews Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn’, Australian Book Review, April 2019
‘The Orchardist’s Daughter review: Karen Viggers’ novel of domestic abuse’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2019
‘What if Harry Potter had been a girl? The new series to share with your kids’, Future Women, 28 February 2019
‘Why you should know Stella Miles Franklin’s name’, Future Women, 8 February 2019
2018
‘The Butcherbird Stories review: A. S. Patric’s expansive short fiction’, The Age, 21 December 2018
Michelle de Kretser et al., ‘Books of the Year 2018’, Australian Book Review, December 2018
‘Astrid Edwards reviews Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford’, Australian Book Review, November 2018 [paywall]
‘Leigh Sales: Admitting doubt, reflecting on mistakes and striving to be better’, Future Women, October 2018 [paywall]
‘Any Ordinary Day review: Leigh Sales and negotiations with sudden grief’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 October 2018
‘Her Agenda: Michelle de Kretser’, Future Women, October 2018 [paywall]
‘Astrid Edwards reviews Dunera Lives: Volume 1: A Visual History by Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark, and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan’, Australian Book Review, September 2018 [paywall]
‘Book review: The Unmapped Mind – Christian Donlan’, 26 July 2018, MS Australia
‘What judges think when judging competitions’, 5 June 2018, Writers Victoria
‘Reading shared experiences ‘like finding a friend’, 1 March 2018, Writers Victoria
2016
‘I feel sorry for the person who left me this note. They clearly don’t understand disability’, The Huffington Post, 2 May 2016 [as told to Astrid Edwards for WeDontTalkAbout.com]
2015
‘This invisible disease can be beaten if we look hard’, Herald Sun, 27 May 2015 [paywall]
‘When health policy is ill’, Policy Forum, 27 May 2015
‘Putting it into words: What it feels like to have MS’, Elephant Journal,10 February 2015 [published under the pseudonym LadywithMS]
2013
‘The memory of a dead lover’, Elephant Journal, 17 June 2013 [published under the pseudonym Ava Graham Millar]