"Quadrant" has also published twenty-five of his essays: "Biblical Imagery in the Songwriting of the Creative Infidels: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Paul Kelly" (Jan–Feb 2012), "Hey Mr Cowbell Man: Sir Christopher Ricks' Dylan's Visions of Sin" (March 2012), "Anti the Anti" (June 2012), "Who Is This White Fella Fella?" (October 2012), "In the Op Shop With Percy Grainger" (November 2012), "Father Scapegoat" (January–February 2013), "Pen Pencil or Keyboard" (March 2013), "Elysium in Paraguay" (July–August 2013), "Graham Greene's Lolita" (April 2014), "Speechless" (July–August 2014), "William S. Burroughs: Scientologist" (Apr. 2015), "Salve for a Broken Childhood: The Phenomenon of Rod McKuen"(Sept. 2015),"The Popular Wobbly: The Subversiveness of Starvation Box Blues" (Oct. 2015),"Florence Foster Jenkins: Dire Diva of Din" (June 2016), "Polymaths and Monomaths" (July–August 2016), "The Willingness to Be Hated" (Sept 2016),"Ain't Gonna Work on Bob Dylan's Farm No More" (October 2016), "Grape-Pickin': Best Australian Poems 2016"(March 2017),"The Great American Songbook: The Classical Music of America" (April 2017), "How I Met Jake Rufli" (Dec. 2017), "GSTQ – God Save the Queen" (March 2018) and "Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz" (April 2018). From June 2018, he has written "Quadrant"s monthly critical review of extended television series including "The Crown", "The Night Manager", "Great British Railway Journeys","Victoria" and "The Last Kingdom".