Here’s another small straw in the wind. This is the trailer for The Hunger Games movie. Even from that, you should get the gist. A country where the poor are tremendously poor and the rich are enormously rich, and where every so often young people are induced to fight and die in meaningless conflicts used […]

Elizabeth Kadetsky continues our series of regular cross-posts from international writers or journals with similar political or aesthetic sensibilities to Overland. Elizabeth Kadetsky’s short stories have been chosen for a Puschart Prize, Best New American Voices and Best American Short Stories notable stories of 2009, and her personal essays have appeared in the New York […]

RANDAL: I’m not going to miss what is probably going to be the social event of the season. DANTE: You hate people. RANDAL: But I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic? – Clerks I enjoyed a sweet taste of alternative artistic expression on two recent occasions which made me feel better about the way things are […]

In the absence of security, I made my way into the night, with 40 000 others, to Edihad Stadium for the George Michael concert. Nostalgia lingered in the warm Melbourne night. My reasons for wanting to see George Michael went beyond his exceptional voice – it was also to reconnect with memories of dress ups […]