Nonfiction & Essays

‘On Not Asking “Should I Insert Myself in the Text?”’
Sydney Review of Books, 11 September 2023

‘Behind the law’s “sheen of neutrality”: Review of Black Lives, White Law’
Inside Story, 26 September 2022

‘From Here to There’
Sydney Review of Books, 27 June 2022 

‘Ditching the New Yorker Voice’
Sydney Review of Books, February 2022 (republished in Public Books, May 2022)

Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law
Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne & London 2018 

'Seeing the Unseeable' (co-written with Hugh Dillon and Jane Mowll)
The Conversation, February 2018

'Out on Parole: The Release Plan'
The Monthly, October 2013

'The Work of Judges'
The Monthly, September 2012

'Close At Hand'
The Monthly, March 2010

'On the Edge'
The Monthly, August 2008

'Ivy League'
The Monthly, February 2008

'Many Me'
Best Australian Essays 2007, (originally appeared in The Monthly, February 2007)

'Waterworld'
The Monthly, July 2007

'Crocodile Fears'
The Monthly, June 2007

'Jenolan's Ancient Archives'
The Australian, 11 October 2006

'Imbroglio'
Silken Cords: Beyond Dear Kate, by Kate Samperi, Angela Rossmanith, Katharine Rossmanith & Julia Rossmanith (Random House, 1999)