Overland literary journal

Contents

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow − Editorial

Correspondence

CAL—Art and Life:  Bruce Mutard − Nine o’clock finish *

Meanland: Jenny Lee − Publishers at the floodgates

Essays

Chris Graham − Telling whites what they want to hear

Michelle Carmody − Beauty without borders

Anwyn Crawford − Permanent daylight

Jacinda Woodhead − Hip-hop in the Wild West

Marion Rankine − Sometimes it takes a writer

Alison Croggon − How Australian is it?

Clive Hamilton − Appeasing climate denial at the ABC

Ben Eltham − Culture is bigger than the arts

Boris Kelly − Killing the worm in ourselves

Jenny Lee − Meanland essay: Publishers at the floodgates

Rjurik Davidson − Liberated zone or pure commodification?

Fiction

Christos Tsiolkas − Rococo

Karen Hitchcock − Forging friendship

Janette Turner Hospital − Weird people

Poetry

Derek Motion − introduction

Adam Ford, Zenobia Frost, Rebecca Giggs, Susan Hampton, Stu Hatton, Kelly-lee Hickey, Hal Judge, Dan Lee, Carly-Jay Metcalf, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Derek Motion, Ella O’Keefe, David Prater, Jaya Savige, Bel Schenk, Andrew Slattery, Amelia Walker, Louise Waller, Benny Walter, Fiona Wright − Before elapsing

Review

Simone Hughes – The City’s Outback (online only)

Cover

Sally Orpin and Robert Brailsford