To launch issue 205 – the last edition of a thrilling publishing year – and to thank our bloggers, contributors and, especially, our readers for the past 360ish days, Overland is having a merry launch/party. Come to Chez Regine at 6pm on Friday 2 December and let us buy you a drink.
What about this new issue? we hear you ask excitedly. Superb question! In the new issue:
o Norwegian writer Mattias Gardell examines the Oslo massacre and the rise of the anti-Muslim right in Europe
o Robert Bollard discovers his Indigenous heritage and considers what it means
o Stephanie Honor Convery and Katrina Fox disagree on sex and animal rights
o Arnold Zable, John Bradley, Kim Scott and Marie Munkara discuss the politics of Indigenous languages
o Xavier Rizos explains the problematic logic of the carbon tax
o Sarah Drummond contemplates the death of a whale and the difficulties of parenting
o Brad Nguyen considers the 2011 London riots
o Caroline Hamilton explores the promise of small presses in the age of digital publishing
o Peter Slezak takes aim at the New Atheists
o Rjurik Davidson analyses the right-wing logic of torture porn movies
o Australian Poetry Centre’s Robert Lukins and poet Ali Alizadeh debate the mainstreaming of poetry
o Alexis Wright, Stephen Muecke and Louise Pine all contribute brilliant new fiction
o And Angela Smith, Ruby Todd, Stuart Barnes, Maketh Ajak, Cath Drake, D J Huppatz, Molly Guy, Eileen Chong, Cameron Lowe, Phillip Hall and Stuart Cooke impress us with their poetic verse
Issue 205 is to be launched by the spectacular Jane Gleeson-White, author and editor extraordinaire (and Overland fiction editor).
When is this merry launch? 6pm, Friday 2 December
Where is this merry launch? Chez Regine
(270 Russell Street, Melbourne)
What will this merry launch cost me? First drink is on us*, then you buy your own
*Unless 10,000 people turn up; we simply don’t have the budget to shout that many free drinks
