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 5 June 20265 June 2026 · Friday Fiction Hobo portraits: Treadly Tim & the falling star Patrick Holland We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle. 3 June 20263 June 2026 · Reviews The past in the object: Vanessa Berry’s Calendar Courtney Powell In her latest book, Calendar, Vanessa Berry explores the relationships that are formed between people and material culture, both fleeting and sentimental, and how they can come to represent us.
