Issue 208 - Overland literary journal

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow − Editorial

Judy Horacek

Alison Croggon

Rjurik Davidson

Features

Jonathan Green
The end of a world
An elegy for the newspaper

Alex Mitchell
Fatal obsessions
Murdoch’s early years

Anwyn Crawford
Fat, privilege and resistance
A response to Jennifer Lee

Matt Cornell
Outsider porn
Adult goes indie

Juliana Qian
The name and the face
CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese

Malcolm Harris
Twitterland
Meanland: The radical terrain of social media

Rebecca Giggs
Imagining women
Feminism and nonfiction

Michael Green
The cooperation
A collective response to unemployment

Fiction

Jennifer Mills − Architecture
Davide Angelo − Double tap
Jannali Jones − Blancamorphosis
Stephanie Convery − Big river

Poetry

Todd Turner − Clockwork

Lawrence Upton − Human Tissue

Cassandra Atherton − Bonds

Campbell Thomson − Australia is a film about a red dog

Tim Thorne – Honesty

Paula Green – Picking Grapes

Adam Aitken – Old Europe (2)

Shari Kocher – Bellbird Gully

Michelle Gaddes – The Tap

Julie Maclean – without a city wall

Graphics

Bruce Mutard
Paper planes
Sam Wallman
cover

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Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

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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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