Published in Overland Issue 210 Autumn 2013 Uncategorized Issue 210 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Aaron Bady Zero dark Geronimo The novel in the age of terror Alyena Mohummadally ‘I thought I was the only one!’ CAL–Connections: On coming out queer and Muslim Francesca Rendle-Short Field guide to writing a father On piecing together a relationship Panagiotis Sotiris The dark dawn of Greek neo-fascism Nazism in the heart of Europe Martin Kovan The year of great burning Tibet and the challenge of self-immolation Kate Davison My German question Israel, Palestine and the German Left Dean Biron The aesthetics of conservatism The case for uncomfortable art Philip Mirowski, Jeremy Walker and Antoinette Abboud Beyond denial How environmentalists confront the wrong problem Guy Rundle Chaos and convergence Why hacktivists and the Left need each other Poetry Prize Peter Minter – Judge’s report Luke Fischer Augury? First place Fiona Hile The owl of Lascaux Second place Myles Gough The watchmaker’s wrath Third place Fiction Theresa Layton The cartography of foxes Andrés Vaccari American djinn 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 27 March 2023 Culture Before ChatGPT, there was Rekognition: How Amazon’s algorithms control which books you see Claire Parnell almost fifteen years after approximately 57,000 books by and about LGBTQIA+ folks disappeared from Amazon’s search results, bestseller lists and sales ranks, the company’s algorithms are still unfairly targeting books by historically marginalised authors, including queer folks and people of colour, and controlling how readers can discover them. First published in Overland Issue 228 24 March 202324 March 2023 War Conga line to Armageddon: the rush to get us into a war with China Ben Brooker It shouldn’t need spelling out that Australia could not win a war with China in any sense that matters, even with the backing of the US and its allies. At best, such a victory would be a Pyrrhic one. At worst, we would be so utterly humiliated as to not even know what kind of defeat had been inflicted upon us.