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A pale white sky
I REMEMBER A severe drought in 1964 when I was a child. First the grass became crisp and brown,...
English-medium boy
I LOVED THE smell of the cotton cloth measured out from bolts that made a soft, slapping sound as...
Art works
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque, French Painter IT STARTED WITH a life-and-death conversation. The doctor, faced with...
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....
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...
Wingspan
Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Hobart in 1948. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Launceston,...
Stories we tell ourselves
‘NATIONS TELL THEMSELVES stories,’ the Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole wrote recently. ‘They are not fully true, they are often...
Shell
For the second instalment of our summer of Sunday-reading, Griffith Review celebrates Kristina Olsson's 'Shell', an excerpt from her...
