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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

The mangroves of Boykambil

I REALISED TODAY that for most of my life I have searched for a premise to explain what I once saw and felt when I looked into the mangroves of Boykambil. So that I can properly explain this realisation, I have waited until the house is quiet and for Alex to go to bed…

By James Aird

The rock

ONCE, I HAD a view across the valley. Green trees with sparkling leaves were home to squawking cockatoos. Once,...

By Katie Shammas

Venerable

WHEN WE PULL up outside the block, she is waiting in her best grey skirt and pearl-pink blouse with...

By Paddy O’Reilly

The real deal

DURING THE FIRST month of my residency I knew hardly anybody in Hanoi. Although I told my friends and...

By Miriam Webster

This is my life

QUINN’S ON THE porch. I can see him over Mum’s shoulder through the smudged vertical strip of glass next...

By Daniel Ray

Piggy

‘Yes. Yes. I am ready,’ I said. Unsure of what I was getting ready for. Something good. Something inexplicable....

By Victor Guan Yi Zhou

Sanford Meisner

TO HELP THE Year 10s reconnect with their craft after the September school holidays, Hale has them do Viewpoints....

By Alex Philp

Hat trick

BEFORE THE CALL, I was a girl in a new city, with a new job and a roommate I chose...

By Laura Pitcher

The jacket

DOUG CLOUDY WAS desperate for it. He hadn’t been laid since the backpackers came through town all those years...

By Alexander Bennetts

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