Helen Goh joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards from London to discuss comfort and comfort food. Helen was born in Malaysia but started her cooking career in Australia. After seven years as head pastry chef at Donovans, a landmark Melbourne restaurant, s

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards embrace the happier side of life this week and consider the idea of comfort. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid reflect on what gives them comfort in 2020 (it involves books, of course). Chapter 2: Jamila makes the case for rea

Tara June Winch joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards from her lockdown in France to discuss creativity and solitude. Tara was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2020 for The Yield, and the novel was also shortlisted for The Stella Prize. In th

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with Season 2 of Anonymous Was A Woman. Chapter 1: First up, Jamila and Astrid consider the idea of solitude and creativity in 2020. Chapter 2: Jamila and Astrid take a look back at Virginia’s Woolf’s A Room of O

In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Carly Findlay, author of the memoir Say Hello and editor of the forthcoming anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia, re

In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Zoya Patel, author of No Country Woman, recommends Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose. The title of this

In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Alice Pung recommends you dive into the works of Melissa Lucashenko. Alice suggests starting with Melissa Lucashenko's 201

In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with a special episode featuring JanFran, Leah Purcell and Jessie Tu. Introduction: Why a special episode? Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid talk accountability and reading audits. Chapter 2

In our final bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider the female characters from literature they would want to befriend at the end of the world. And yes, they have very different understandings of what the end of the world might look like.

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are joined by Min Jin Lee to discuss triumph in literature. The hero’s journey has shaped fiction since before we called it that. Is the heroine's journey different? Chapter 1: Min Jin Lee joins Jamila and Astrid from New Y