Status Anxiety

Griffith Review #85

by Carody Culver (Editor), Shahar Hameiri (Contributor), Diana Reid (Contributor)

Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can’t always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its connections to class, race and gender, it affords some of us power and wealth and others empty promises.
But why does status so often go unnoticed? How does it influence everything from social inequality to personal relationships? And what changing forces have come to bear on the high or low status we’ve ascribed ourselves and others over the centuries?
Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety grapples with the fallout of our status anxiety and explores what happens when we don’t measure up.

Genres: Nonfiction

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 6, 2024

About the author

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review.

She was a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Books+Publishing.

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.

Reviews

[Kanako Okiron · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of essays. As a Japanese, I found Haruko Koga's essay particularly interesting and invigorating, giving Japan's most recent megaquake/tsunami scare, said to triple the lives lost from 3/11.

[Caroline Duggan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another great selection of essays and short fiction.