Memoir Archives

IF I AM to write the true history of the Circus, I must start by telling you how my...

By David Carlin

'ARE YOU GOING? If he wins, are we going?' It was October 2008, a month before the presidential election,...

By Melody L Fuller

Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2011 I TRIED NOT to jump to conclusions. I remembered Oklahoma – those few...

By Shakira Hussein

FOR A LONG time I could not make up my mind where and when to start my story, but...

By Anna Dorrington

CIGAR BOXES ARE elegant and prettily made small objects, more common once than they are now. They are made...

By Marion Halligan

WHEN I READ Georgia Blain's memoir, Births Deaths Marriages (Random House, 2008), I was struck by the cover of...

By Debra Adelaide

MY PAST HAS not quite perished, nor would I want it to. The events described in my second memoir,...

By Kate Holden

MY PSYCHIATRIST IS this pert petite pixie. Excuse me: when I'm manic, and I am manic at the moment,...

By Rebecca Epstein

Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2011ON MY LEFT index finger is a ring that fits snugly. It's been...

By Andrew Sant

I HAVE STEPPED inside a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's cabinet of mirrors, and here I am, as I...

By Lloyd Jones

COME SIT UPON Munibung Hill with me. When I was a kid we called it Hawkins Hill after the...

By Andrew Belk

In this special, festive edition of our summer-reading program, Griffith Review returns to 'Post-nuclear', Benjamin Law's brief and moving...

By Benjamin Law