Issue 208


Contents

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow − Editorial

Judy Horacek

Alison Croggon

Rjurik Davidson

Features

Jonathan Green
The end of a world
An elegy for the newspaper

Alex Mitchell
Fatal obsessions
Murdoch’s early years

Anwyn Crawford
Fat, privilege and resistance
A response to Jennifer Lee

Matt Cornell
Outsider porn
Adult goes indie

Juliana Qian
The name and the face
CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese

Malcolm Harris
Twitterland
Meanland: The radical terrain of social media

Rebecca Giggs
Imagining women
Feminism and nonfiction

Michael Green
The cooperation
A collective response to unemployment

Fiction

Jennifer Mills − Architecture
Davide Angelo − Double tap
Jannali Jones − Blancamorphosis
Stephanie Convery − Big river

Poetry

Todd Turner − Clockwork

Lawrence Upton − Human Tissue

Cassandra Atherton − Bonds

Campbell Thomson − Australia is a film about a red dog

Tim Thorne – Honesty

Paula Green – Picking Grapes

Adam Aitken – Old Europe (2)

Shari Kocher – Bellbird Gully

Michelle Gaddes – The Tap

Julie Maclean – without a city wall

Graphics

Bruce Mutard
Paper planes
Sam Wallman
cover

Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland.

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