Published in Overland Issue 214 Autumn 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 214 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Avan Judd Stallard Welcome to Curtin Working in a detention centre BJ Thomason A slippery bastard The many legends of Breaker Morant Jeff sparrow ‘Cats are out, sloths are in’ What’s the point of fact-checking? Andrew Nette A proletarian James Bond? Spy novels in the Soviet Bloc Claire Corbett The last space waltz? Saying goodbye to space travel Brendan Keogh On video game criticism A letter to Susan Sontag Jill Jolliffe A new thalidomide? The health costs of forced adoption Ira Lightman & Anthony Hayes Is plagiarism wrong? A debate FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Josephine Rowe A small cleared space Kate Hall Little quiet one Anthony Panegyres Submerging Ben Walter What fear was POETRY Peter Minter Judge’s report: 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize MYLES GOUGH First place: topography Andrew Watts Second place: Lagrange Mitchell Welch Third place: Stanwell Tops ILLUSTRATIONS Murtaza Ali Jafari Ben Juers Lee Lai Megan cope Michael Hawkins Frances Howe Joanna Anderson COVER ART Ingo Giezendanner 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 4 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
