Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 85 contributors Shahar Hameiri and Haruko Koga to explore why we’re so obsessed with status. They’ll investigate the rise of the far right, the end of mass politics and the radioactive fallout from Japan’s fraught relationship with nuclear power.  

Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. He is co-author, most recently, of The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response (UQP, 2023).  

Haruko Koga is an emerging writer from Japan. She has been a translator and a writer specialising in TV drama novelisations and is working on her first novel. 

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She has written for publications including Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Books+Publishing. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022, and she’s been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.