Contents

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow – Editorial
Alison Croggon
Judy Horacek
Rjurik Davidson
Stephen Wright

Features

David Brophy
John Campbell, the Anti-Kim
The strange story of a British boy lost in Afghanistan

Tom Clark
Paul Keating’s Redfern Park speech and its rhetorical legacy
How do you separate the orator and the oration?

Lisa Vetten
Islands adrift
Fighting back against rape culture in South Africa

Arnold Zable and Alexis Wright
The future of swans
A PEN dialogue on Wright’s new novel

Subhash Jaireth
‘It can’t go on like this anymore’
The tragedy and triumph of Mikhail Bulgakov

Mel Campbell
The writer as performer
Authorship and selling the self

Geoff Robinson
Spectres of labourism
What were the lessons of the ALP’s defeat?

Hugo J Race
The storm breaking
Rock’n’roll in Mali

Fiction

Jennifer Mills
Report on the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize 2013

Jennifer Down
Turncoat

Nic Low
Rush

Robyn Dennison
The job

Poetry

Stuart Cooke
Wander in &/Under

Anne Elvey
Treasure hunt

Adam Formosa
Northgate

Jessica Wilkinson
Jazz hands

Fiona Wright
Marrickville

Elizabeth Allen
Refrigerator

Samuel Wagan Watson
Cloud burst

Brenda Saunders
Walmadany

Mark Mordue
I didn’t know your eyes were blue

Larry Buttrose
Toast

Illustrations

Sam Wallman