Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 Buy this issue Issue Contents Features ‘Why are you still alive?’ Carmela Baranowska feature | Thomas Shepherd Editorial team Editorial editorial | Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow Browse the issue: Features Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Reading ‘Why are you still alive?’ Carmela Baranowska Five years later people no longer stop me in the street and ask: ‘What happened? Did the Taliban kidnap you? Why are you still alive?’ During two strange and chaotic days in June 2004, I was on the front page of Melbourne’s Age, and the second news item on Channel Nine, sandwiched between the war […] Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts feature | Thomas Shepherd Editorial team OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 A life in mirrors Jeff Sparrow and Rjurik Davidson meet Thomas Shepherd, a former ASIO informer Thomas Shepherd does not seem like a spy. He walks slowly, gently, into the Overland office, and accepts a proffered cup of tea. He speaks softly; his tone measured, […] Editorial Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts editorial | Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 With the support of the City of Melbourne’s ‘Writing About Melbourne’ program, Overland approached four authors whose work we admired and invited them to contribute stories set in the city’s future. There were no other stipulations. You can see the results on pages 49−80, strikingly […] Previous Issue Print Issue 195 Winter 2009 Next Issue Print Issue 197 Summer 2009
