Griffith Review 60 - First Things First Jonathan Fields Dedicated readers have long known

Dedicated readers have long known that the medium of comics and graphic novels isn't all about caped super-heroes and spandex-clad bad girls

From nostalgic memories of youth

the hot-blooded Dmitry

set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality

with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic oral history of the Soviet camps

Griffith Review 60 - First Things First Jonathan Fields Dedicated readers have long knownInspired by the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and featuring outstanding Indigenous writers, First Things First is an urgent, nuanced and robust call to listen, hear and respond to questions of constitutional recognition. More than two centuries after European settlers arrived, the need to find an honourable way to recognise and celebrate the unique history of this country as home to the oldest living civilisation is long overdue. A Makaratta