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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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George Kowalik

George Kowalik is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at King's College London, a short fiction writer, and a freelance culture writer. He is also Assistant Editor at Coastal Shelf. His recent and forthcoming publications include Avatar Review, Derailleur Press, Offscreen and Vague Visages, and in 2020 he was shortlisted for Ouen Press’ Short Story Competition.

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8 June 202225 July 2022 · Film

The politics of the multiverse: simultaneity and trauma in Everything Everywhere All at Once

George Kowalik

The multiverse can have deeper implications when the interests in self-conscious play and knotty conception are probed for a more consequential social commentary. While neither a flawless execution of the cinematic multiverse nor an exhaustive exploration of identity and inequality, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a productive example of this balance.

17 August 202114 September 2021 · Reviews

Where the grim chaos leads: Tao Lin’s Leave Society

George Kowalik

Lin’s fourth novel (and first for eight years) addresses health – physical, mental, the protagonist's, his parents' – in a historical moment where we must urgently rethink how we prioritise it, and in a cultural moment where our music, films, and books are motivated by a responsibility to talk about it with the volume turned up.

23 June 202127 July 2021 · Film

What life on Earth is for: animated films and the pandemic

George Kowalik

In most countries, new film releases have played out over the past year or so within the four walls of living rooms, on the small screens of television sets, laptop screens, or tablets. But how do we respond when the conditions of crisis are reflected back to us in those films?

20 April 202120 May 2021 · literary culture

Erasure at twenty

George Kowalik

Percival Everett’s career-defining novel Erasure turns twenty this year. Revisited in 2021, its hyper self-consciousness and metafictional acrobatics have a special resonance, chiming with a historical moment where hysteria and manipulation run rampant.