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.
Professor Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, Illinois. His most recent book is ScienceMart™: The Privatization of American Science (2011). His forthcoming work Never Let a Dire Crisis Go to Waste documents the zombie-like resilience of orthodox economic doctrines in the wake of the deepest financial crisis since the 1930s.
