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.
Demonstrating defiance
I NEVER SAW a key to the front door of my childhood home, though I’m sure my father had...
Journey through the apocalypse
HALF BURIED IN the sand, uprooted stalks of kelp are like splashes of dark blood against the white quartzite,...
How to preserve a turnip
THE GIRL WAS born to snow. Her mother, hot with the pain of a sideways birth, stumbled into the virgin drift and squatted, barefoot and angry as a nest of wasps. Her screams echoed off the white face of the mountains and back across nearby Trbinc Hill.
Effeminacy, mateship, love
THIS YEAR – 2017 – is the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Australian writer Henry Lawson. Lawson...
