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What are the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a better future?Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! explores the ramifications of Thomas More's term in a range of contexts: the possible and the improbable, the out of reach and almost realised.PurchaseIs it pointless to write once more that things are a terrible mess? It would be good if we could write instead, or as well: here is the path to fix it. To write, yes, our house is on fire but also, here is the fire exit or – even better! And if only! – here comes the fire brigade.In our latest Through the Window, Jane Rawson asks why we write about climate change.Read the piece in full here.Exercise exemptions: wear good leggings and a matching top. Go to the nice walking tracks near the Drummoyne McMansions where police stay in their cars and just do laps. When you’re there, walk with your chest up and out, a little smile. Shopping exemptions: always buy a loaf of bread and UHT milk and at least one canned good. Never cough, don’t linger. Get carded anyway.In our second Through the Window of the year, award-winning poet Alison Whittaker offers a glimpse of life in containment.Read the piece in full here.What you will notice immediately is the ordinariness, the quotidian pallor, of the visitor waiting room. Just as there were no barbed-wire fences or bluestone ramparts at the prison entrance – Howard Springs frankly looked more impenetrable – there are no six-foot psychopathic attack dogs at the check-in desk.Through the Window is back! In the first instalment of our revamped online series, award-winning author Clare Wright is a tourist in Australia's criminal justice system.Read the piece in full here.Education never ends, as Sherlock Holmes once told Watson – but where does it begin? And how many different paths can we take on the journey to knowledge?Submissions are open now for Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves. Find out more here and submit via Submittable by 31 August 2021.Image credit: Shaun Tan, On My Way to Paradise  AT THE START of the northern hemisphere summer, essayist Sarah Miller wrote a piece for Nieman Lab called ‘All the right words on climate have already been said’.‘What kind of awareness quotient are we looking for?’ she said, fai... IT’S THE DULL hum of a helicopter overhead that wakes me up. A few pocketed families scatter from their games – soccer / volleyball / running really fast together in a straight line, being timed.It’s hard to find a way to justify falling as... I AM IN the archives looking at a sketch of a creek drawn a hundred years ago. Firmly attached in the same folder are the surveyor’s completed, more formal maps. They all show a creek curling through what is now the Addison Road Community Centre in... EDITION 73 Hey, Utopia! Visiting utopias old and new, near and far, Hey, Utopia! explores the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a better future. Where will it take us next? And do we even want to go there? EDITION 74 Escape Routes Plotting the parameters of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. As another testing year comes to an end, this edition sets out to celebrate what might come next. Subscribe to eNews Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review. Subscribe to eNews Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review. Building s02, South Bank, Campus Griffith UniversityGrey Street, South Bank 4101 AustraliaSouth Bank Campus, Griffith UniversityPO Box 3370, South Brisbane 4101, Australia

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