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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson has written two prize-winning biographies, and is now working on a double biography of Stephen Murray-Smith and Clem Christesen of Meanjin. He was Meanjin’s second editor, from 1974 to 1982.

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Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014 · Politics

Stephen’s vector

Jim Davidson

More positively, socialist realism was centrally concerned, as a Soviet ideologue put it, with promoting ‘revolutionary romanticism’, expressing in literature ‘the very soul of the proletariat, its passion and its love’.