Published in Overland Issue 189 Summer 2007 · Uncategorized Issue 189 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Christos Tsiolkas – Torch Song Overland Lecture Ramona Koval In Praise of the Common Reader Features Liz Conor Howard’s Desert Storm Mary-Ellen Stringer The Sky as Common Ground Kevin Foster A Sociable Paradise Tom O’Lincoln Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies Shane Cahill ‘This Fascist Mob’ Jeff Sparrow Theatre of War Nicole Moore Art Makes the World: Mona Brand, 1915-2007 Fiction Jennifer Robertson The Hotel Lobby Kaye Watson The Effortlessness of Being Jeremy Fisher Winter Afternoon Poetry David Prater Travelling Types John Kinsella Elegy For (unavailable online) Will Fraser Shackled A Genuine Fact Greg McLaren Neath Colliery: a found poem Ali Alizadeh Culture and Its Terrors Murray Alfredson Angus dei Jonathan Hadwen Cops on Horses MTC Cronin Being Interviewed in The Scottish Book Collector Paul Hetherington At Home Kerry Scuffins Advance Australian Fear Tatjana Lukic waiting for a change Kevin Gillam dismantling the Trans. Stuart Cooke What Spain Was Reviews Kerry Leves Looking Out at the Lights: New Poetry Lucy Sussex Goths and Vandals Louise Swinn Unpicking the Universe Jamie Cooke Switched Off: Australia’s Media Barry Dickins The First Poet of His People Lyndall Ryan In Quite a State Nathan Hollier Ruling Passions Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 17 January 202517 January 2025 · rape culture Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape Emmy Rakete The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name. Auckland city itself is a silent participant in the abuse that Pavlovich suffered. Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is a story about Auckland. 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this.
