Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures

There's no escaping the onslaught of content these days. But it seems increasingly tricky to determine what's good and what's not as we stream, tap and swipe our way through our endless entertainment feeds. How can we tell our own taste? Have we reached the end of culture? What place does criticism occupy in this ever-shifting landscape?

From page to screen and everything in between, Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures consumes the culture of the twenty-first century and tries to outrun the algorithm.

About the Authors

Carody Culver is a writer and editor. 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. A former contributing editor for Peppermint magazine, she is currently the editor of Griffith Review.

Beau Windon is a is a neurodivergent Wiradjuri writer based Naarm (Melbourne). He writes quirky stories about quirky people (including his quirky self) and poetry about all of the dark goo coating his mind. In 2021, his creative non-fiction saw him awarded a Writeability Fellowship. In 2023 Beau was one of the winning writers for Griffith Review’s Emerging Voices competition, and in 2024 he was a finalist for the Writer’s Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.