Articles Archive

BELEM IS THE name of the delicious egg tarts, pastéis de Belém, from a cake shop in the barrio...

I'M AN ISLOMANIAC. As Lawrence Durrell says, coining the term in his 1953 book Reflections on a Marine Venus...

IM Emily Kame Kngwarreye Outrageous, the flag of beautyas day revolves to night, a skythick with stars that fall like...

By WH Chong

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

By Andrew Belk

i dream of islands, glass-bottom boats, waters clearand safe as houses before they're bombedfish scales, slippery as yesterday's newsi...

Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) – 32°S 115°31'E – 18 km off shore – Western Australia AUTUMN rough serious blue seapale sky, pale...

What was he thinking of, coming here?A new world? A rich initiativeFor a young body raised in an old...

By Thomas Shapcott

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

A THIRD-GENERATION Asia-born waiguoren – foreigner – I lived until I was eight in Peking, and remember my father...

THEY DON'T HAVE siestas in the Galiwin'ku community on Elcho Island, in Arnhem Land on the Arafura Sea, but...

By Ramona Koval

I AM STANDING on the train platform, twelve years old. Too old for dolls and dress-ups, too young for...

By Elena Williams

AS SOON AS I achieved my escape from the groves of academia nuts, I moved to the land of...

By Michael Wilding