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y separately published work icon Griffith Review periodical issue  
Alternative title: Perils of Populism
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... no. 57 August 2017 of Griffith Review est. 2003- Griffith Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sous Chefi"This is how I remember you: Thursday nights, stray curls", Heather Taylor Johnson , single work poetry (p. 10)
Lessons of History : Keeping Politics Out of Policing, Nigel Powell , single work autobiography

'I couldn't move. Curled up paralysed at the bottom of the stairs I just wanted the screams to stop. My brother couldn't stop his cries and my dad wouldn't stop hitting him with the belt. I shrank as small as I could and did nothing. I can still hear my brother's screams, even now. To my eternal shame, I was so glad it wasn't me.' (Publication abstract)

 (p. 158-173)
What Ripples beneath : The Chilling Realities of Equal Justice, Bri Lee , single work autobiography (p. 174-182)
Those Who Trespass against Us : Growing up in the Shadow of Obsession, Lech Blaine , single work autobiography

'It was the 21 March 2002. The subdued beauty of an autumn afternoon in Toowoomba. Cool enough to be winter. Dying light and green leaves. A yellow dome glowing in the western skies.'  (Publication abstract)

 (p. 183-199)
A Case of Dutch Melancholy : Black Pete and the Glorious Past, Ben Falkenmire , single work autobiography

'I first visited the Netherlands in 2002, just after the Dutch had kissed goodbye to their beloved guilders and embraced the euro. The atmosphere was one of excitement. This progressive and liberal country was, together with other European Union members, embarking on an audacious and ideological project. I immediately wanted to participate, in whatever way I could. Eight years later I got my chance. I moved to Amsterdam and started work for an international bank that had been bailed out by the Dutch government as a result of the GFC. An anti-Islam politician had just won twenty-four seats out of a hundred and fifty in the federal election and questions around Dutch identity were eating into nightly chat show schedules. A paragon of 'Dutchness' was about to arrest public attention, and it had nothing to do with windmills or tulips. I came face-to-face with it during my first November in the city.'  (Publication abstract)

 (p. 200-211)
Europe, June 2016i"The flight path on the screen", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 212-214)
Crossing Lines: Walking Multiracial Singapore, David Fettling , single work autobiography

'The day after the news filled with Hilary Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis, I found the Al-Salaam restaurant closed. I looked up and down my local stretch of Changi Road, wondering where else I could get some breakfast roti, and quickly gathered this wasn't a normal Singapore weekday. A large crowd - Malays, Indians, Arabs, others - was leaving the local mosque. A hawker centre was dense with patrons eating noodles with conspicuous unhurriedness. Families strolled along a canal leading down to the beach.'  (Publication abstract)

 (p. 228-234)
Content Farmsi"Search optimisation is the bronzewing’s nemesis", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 243)
Shanghai Baby, Jim Hearn , single work short story (p. 271-290)
A Voté, Xavier Hennekinne , single work prose

'I voted Benoit Hamon. What can I say? I have always voted for the Parti Socialiste candidates at presidential and legislative elections, and at local elections when candidates were known to belong to the party. I’ll vote Macron in the second round.' (Introduction)
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