Published in Overland Issue 204 Spring 2011 · Main Posts Issue 204 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Anwyn Crawford Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Malalai Joya − Interview Get out of Afghanistan now! John Martinkus − ‘Kidnapped in Iraq, attacked in Australia’ Journalism in a time of war Eve Vincent− Life in limbo The cruelty of mandatory detention Jessica Whyte − ‘The long night of the Left is drawing to a close’ Communism after communism John Kinsella − A rural diary Pages from a poet’s notebook Jennifer Mills – How to write about Aboriginal Australia A handy guide Bruce Mutard – Gwen Kelly’s ‘The birthday boy’ A re-imagining of a story from Overland 5 Kirsten Tranter – Refiguring fiction Feminism and China Miéville Peter Kirkpatrick – A one-man writer’s festival On the poetry of Clive James Andy Worthington – When America changed forever Human rights ten years after 9/11 Richard Seymour – What was that all about? The meaning of the war on terror CAL Connections:Ellena Savage – ‘My flesh turned to stone’ • The politics of trauma Meanland: Emmett Stinson − Vanity Fair Self-publishing in a digital age Fiction Jacinda Woodhead − How to tell if you’re the red herring Charlotte Wood − Animal People Anthony Panegyres − Reading coffee Poetry Elizabeth Allen − Two Years On Liam Ferney − Before Autumn Peter Rose – Stuff of Sleep and Dreams John Leonard – After Rain Jill Jones – Misinterpretations /or The Dark Grey Outline Luke Beesley – Peregrine Falcon Adam Formosa – The twin stacks Judy Durrant – gladstone bag Nathan Curnow – excluding guns and ammo Ann Vickery – at Heatherlie Quarry Brenda Saunders – Toyota Dreaming Cover Reeham Hakem from Crooked Rib Art, photographs by Lisa Fletcher • Supported by Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.