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.
Gold mountain woman
On the first Sunday of our summer-reading program, Griffith Review shines a spotlight on Mirandi Riwoe’s ‘Gold mountain woman’,...
Local spirits
DECEMBER NIGHTS IN the mountains of the Abruzzo are long. People get cabin-fever in these snow-bound high villages on...
The trench
DOCTOR JUNK STOPS his car facing the heavy white gate, from where he can see a few outlying buildings...
Less is less
A STRANGER RODE into town only it wasn’t a stranger, it was Kerry, come to say goodbye to Pop...
A model citizen
HE TOLD ME he’d meet me at the corner of the station where Citibank had a small office. ‘I’ll be...
Bitter Eaters
LSS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1 WE ARE SHORT and invisible men. Oriental red. Iron-rail thin. Short for men in...
Little grasshopper
CAROLINA THEY USED HIS face on the Facebook profile. When he sent me a friend request, I accepted because he...
How to overthrow the Monarchy in one easy trip
‘THE QUEEN’S GONNA pass over Charlie and hand over the Crown to William,’ Chickee said to Buzz. ‘Poor Old...
Shell
For the second instalment of our summer of Sunday-reading, Griffith Review celebrates Kristina Olsson's 'Shell', an excerpt from her...
Lake Misery
1 THE FIRST THING that happened was a woman came into the ranger station while I was on the phone...
In 1974
SUE SHIT, DAVID SAID. Look at this! Julia Gillard was announcing the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse....
The subject beneath the object
In 1990, a group of medical researchers theorised that Vincent van Gogh suffered from Ménière’s disease, rather than epilepsy....
