Griffith Review 94: Out of Office

Carody Culver · Sam Elkin

Nov 2026 · GRIFFITH REVIEW

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Most of us will spend a dispiriting 90,000 hours of our lives at work. That’s a third of the average lifespan; no wonder so many of us want to stick it to the man. Love it or hate it, how we spend our working hours – whether for ourselves, for our families or for a faceless corporation – can have a profound influence on our self-worth, our social circles, and our sense of purpose and identity. But where did work come from? What rights should our employers have to circumscribe our speech?

What’s the role of unions in the twenty-first century? Why don’t we have a universal basic income? How do we separate our jobs from our selves? And whatever happened to the four-hour work week?

This edition of Griffith Review clocks in for another day at the coalface.

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About the author

Carody Culver is a writer, editor and literary interviewer. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings and elsewhere. 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.

Sam Elkin is a writer, lawyer and radio maker and author of Detachable Penis (Upswell, 2024) and coeditor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin). Sam’s essays have been published in Griffith Review, Antithesis Journal, Bent Street, Australian Book Review, Overland, Sydney Review of Books and Kill Your Darlings. He hosts the 3RRR radio show Queer View Mirror and is a Tilde Film Festival board member.

Carody Culver is a writer, editor and literary interviewer. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022, and she’s been a featured Australi...

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