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‘WHERE ARE YOU from?’ is an anxiety-inducing question for me. It’s not that I can’t answer it. It’s more...

IN 2017, MORE than one hundred books were published telling the stories of Australians from non-English speaking backgrounds. They...

By Klaus Neumann

A hard name There were reds under the beds when we were growing up and someone at school always ridiculed my name the name...

The rosy she-oak table gleams, laden with bowls of steamy stew, a bottle of red and four glasses. The glissando of our...

By Laura Jan Shore

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS AND more questions. Twenty-seven pages of questions for the applicant and seventeen for the sponsor. Is the relationship...

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to...

By Alicia Sometimes

OUR FOOTSTEPS ECHO as we climb the stairs. My grandma holds my hand. Shhhhh – be quiet! My grandpa is sleeping. The...

By Favel Parrett

On the first Sunday of our summer-reading program, Griffith Review shines a spotlight on Mirandi Riwoe’s ‘Gold mountain woman’,...

By Mirandi Riwoe

DECEMBER NIGHTS IN the mountains of the Abruzzo are long. People get cabin-fever in these snow-bound high villages on...

RUBBERNECKING. THERE’S NO denying that was my intention as I huddled with the growing crowd behind the blue-and-white checkered tape,...

By Sheila Ngoc Pham

ANNIE TRIED TO leave. She had no cash, just a car full of possessions. She’d worked full-time for four...

By David Peetz

EVERY MORNING I would press my nose against the glass and try to imagine what this place could be....