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.
Musique concrète
The original brutalism is the projection, in concrete, of strong social ideals. It’s also the architectural sedimentation of a given period: the hopeful ’50s up to the ’70s. But to me more personally, it’s a totally alien form of architecture: in my hometown, most of the buildings are small and made of wood. So raw concrete, sign me up! I was hooked very early on: I remember very fondly some of the brutalist buildings in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from my travels in Canada as a kid.
‘A poem is a unicycle’
IN LATE 2020, Barbara Kingsolver published How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), her first poetry collection in...
Risks and rewards
Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors takes a wide-ranging look at the technological upheavals and innovations that define the...
Responding to climate change
In his essay for Griffith Review 63: Writing the Country, ‘Climate change, science and country: A never-ending story’, Brendan...
Interview with
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is a Melbourne-based writer and practising GP. ‘Muse’, published in Griffith Review 54: Earthly Delights, is part...
Interview with
Graham Lang
Graham Lang is an artist and writer who has published three novels: Clouds Like Black Dogs (Jonathan Ball Publishers,...
Interview with
Daniel Jenkins
Daniel Jenkins grew up in New South Wales. He has spent most of the past ten years living in...
Interview with
Suzanne McCourt
Suzanne McCourt’s first novel The Lost Child (Text, 2014) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2015. Her novella ‘The...
Interview with
Stephen Orr
Based in Adelaide, Stephen Orr has published several novels, and has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and...
Depending on the final yes
AL GORE, FORMER US vice president, Nobel laureate and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, has led the global...
Interview with Miguel Syjuco
BORN IN 1976, Miguel Syjuco is a freelance writer from Metro Manila in the Philippines. Since finishing a Bachelor...
Interview with Murong Xuecun
MURONG XUECUN IS the pen name of Hao Qun, a novelist and the most famous of a wave of...
