Steph Harmon

Sydney

Culture Editor at The Guardian

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‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Michael Sun |Lucy Clark |Celina Ribeiro |Alyx Gorman | +3 more

I Want Everything by Dominic AmerenaFiction, Simon & Schuster, $34.99This debut novel luxuriates in the lies it weaves. Dominic Amerena is a confident storyteller, jumping between the novel’s two narrators with ease. One, a down-on-his-luck writer searching for a story. The other, a reclusive Australian novelist who disappeared from the public eye at the height of her career.
the best Australian books out in April

2 months ago | msn.com | Steph Harmon |Jack Callil |Steve Dow |Fiona Wright |Claire Cao |Dee Jefferson | +3 more

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‘Blood-pumping’, ‘outstanding’, ‘urgent and essential’: the best Australian books out in April

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Jack Callil |Steve Dow |Fiona Wright |Dee Jefferson |Celina Ribeiro | +2 more

Unsettled by Kate GrenvilleNonfiction, Black Inc, $36.99 Illustration: Black Inc BooksTwenty years after she fictionalised her ex-convict great-great-great-grandfather Solomon Wiseman in The Secret River, speculating he took part in killing Dharug people, Grenville makes a pilgrimage through the landscape of northern New South Wales to better understand more than two centuries of suffering by Indigenous people dispossessed by colonisation.
the best Australian books out in March

Mar 7, 2025 | msn.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham

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‘Taut’, ‘extraordinary delight’, ‘absolutely bonkers’: the best Australian books out in March

Mar 7, 2025 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham

Signs of Damage by Diana ReidFiction, Ultimo, $34.99Diana Reid’s breakout debut, Love and Virtue, tapped the millennial zeitgeist from all angles: a campus novel exploring class, power and rape culture. Her fast follow-up, Seeing Other People, dealt in similar grey areas, starring two sisters in their 20s, both drawn to the same women. Signs of Damage is something of a departure: a thriller set in Europe across two time periods, as a family reckons with unknown trauma.
My petty gripe: you have 400 parks to picnic in, why would you choose an off-leash dog area?

Feb 24, 2025 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon

My beautiful stupid boy. So long and brave as he bounds at light-speed across the sunny fields, looping past the old trees and disused play equipment, a joyful cascade of limitless hope and unhinged, insatiable hunger.
David Sedaris: ‘I’m shocked by people who take selfies in public. I’d sooner masturbate in public’

Jan 29, 2025 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon

You just got back from Egypt. What was that like? There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So I didn’t go to the pyramids – instead, I bought cans of tuna, because you wouldn’t believe how cheap it is there to feed cats. When you get to a hotel, what is the first thing that you do? Flush the toilet to make sure that it works.
The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

Jan 15, 2025 | msn.com | Steph Harmon

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The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

Jan 15, 2025 | msn.com | Steph Harmon

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The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying - and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

Jan 15, 2025 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon

I will never forget the face of the woman who sat next to me on that flight from Sydney to Melbourne; pale, frantic, crestfallen. Her hands were shaking and her breath kept sticking in her throat. As a fear-of-flying veteran I thought I recognised the symptoms. I’d come prepared with remedies chemical and naturopathic. I offered her my goods. But her anguish, it turned out, had another cause.

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Articles

‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

the best Australian books out in April

‘Blood-pumping’, ‘outstanding’, ‘urgent and essential’: the best Australian books out in April

the best Australian books out in March

‘Taut’, ‘extraordinary delight’, ‘absolutely bonkers’: the best Australian books out in March

My petty gripe: you have 400 parks to picnic in, why would you choose an off-leash dog area?

David Sedaris: ‘I’m shocked by people who take selfies in public. I’d sooner masturbate in public’

The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying – and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

The kindness of strangers: I had a fear of flying - and as the plane shook and plummeted, she held my hand

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