Published 26 November 2009 · Main Posts happenings aplenty Jeff Sparrow How many ways can you absorb Overland goodness? Why, let’s count them! 1. If you are a subscriber, you would have received (or be just about to receive) Overland 197, with Guy Rundle on Kevin Rudd, Fiona Capp on Judith Wright, Anwyn Crawford on Nick Cave, Sophie Cunningham on the world beneath Melbourne and much, much more. 2. If you are in Melbourne this Sunday, you can attend the Overland/Meanjin end-of-year event and lawn bowls challenge. 3. Wherever you are, you can join in the inaugural Overland subscriberthon, which kicks off on 1 December. 4. Next year, you can participate in the ‘Meanland’ collaboration with Meanjin, which begins, in spectacular fashion, with this event at the newly christened Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne before moving to other cities across Australia. More on this soon. 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 28 March 20249 April 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. 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.