Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 · Uncategorized Issue 213 Editorial team 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 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 2 November 20242 November 2024 · Politics Donald Trump, or the Republican takeover of the Democratic Party Jeff Sparrow Since 2016, Trump has successfully remade the GOP in his own image, and, by so doing, pushed the centre of American politics further to the right, even to the extent of achieving the repeal of Roe v Wade (a long-held conservative dream). The current election illustrates that success. 1 November 20241 November 2024 · Fiction Grief for others Christopher Marcatili We found them after this year’s snowmelt. The dark, formless things. Looking like they’d been dredged up from some abyss. Had they fallen from the sky with the snow? Emerged from the crevices below? Had the ice metamorphosed, angry as we trampled it?