Overland literary journal

OVERLAND 192
spring 2008
ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0
published 31 August 2008
Peter Craven versus Ken Gelder, music in the desert, boxing in NYC, the return of terrorism in literature, Christina Stead as communist.

Contents

Jeff Sparrow - Editorial

Debate

Peter Craven versus Ken Gelder – Criticism and Fiction in Australia

Features

Hugo Race – Return to the Source
Bruce Pascoe – A Canyon of Incomprehension
Mischa Merz – The Sweetest Thing
Cate Kennedy – Interviewed by Andrew Macrae
Andrew McCann – Militancy and Melancholia
Ned Curthoys – Against the New Atheism
Catherine Ryan – Lost
Michael Ackland – Realigning Christina Stead

Fiction

Paddy O’Reilly – Breaking Up [unavailable online]
Steven Amsterdam – Nothing Surprises
Amanda Lohrey – The Buddha at Blues Point

Poetry

Lidija Šimkutë – Cobblestones – The Baltic Storm
Dorothy Porter – Foggy Windows
Maria Freij – Åhus, 1986
joanne burns – coming clean – from brush
Kim Cheng Boey – No More – Dinky’s House of Russian Goods, Singapore
Jill Jones – Let’s Get Lost
Dan Disney – Wandering – Aubade – Nocturne

Reviews

Louisa Syme – Unconventional Wisdom: Australian Short Stories
Nathan Hollier – An Anthropological Turn?
Jean-François Vernay – Globalise This!
Zoe Holman – Activist Antics
Alastair Davidson – Remembering the Past?