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Cover of Overland 247. Cover design is a painting by Hop Dac, of a pink wall and floor, with an orange cabinet, a beaded door curtain, and a brown rabbit lying on the floor.

247 Winter 2022

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Gregory Marks on Wake In Fright, Lachlan Summers on the naming of storms, Jack Kirne on colonialism and climate literature, plus new fiction and poetry from Laurie Steed, Karen A Johnson, Yeena Kirkbright, Holly Isemonger, joanne burns, and the winner of the 2021 Nakata Brophy Prize.

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10 November 202211 November 2022

Socialist realism, Overland and the politics of representation

Jeff Sparrow

The publication of Jim Davidson’s biography of Overland’s Stephen Murray-Smith and Meanjin founder Clem Christesen provides an opportunity to re-examine the socialist realism with which Overland was once very much associated.