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Overland – Australia’s only radical literary magazine – has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954. The magazine has published some of Australia’s most iconic voices, and continues to give space to underrepresented voices and brand-new literary talent every single day.
In 2018, Overland is a quarterly print journal (publishing essays, stories and poetry), and an online magazine publishing cultural commentary each week day, as well as occasional special online editions of fiction and poetry. The magazine also holds events, discussions and debates, hosts a number of major literary competitions, and runs a residency for underrepresented writers. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | Australia |
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Search ArticlesThe Hayes family letter, with introductions by Henry Reynolds and Felicity Hayes
The following text was submitted to the AUKUS Public Inquiry with the intention of highlighting the issue of the lack of free, prior and informed consent for the massive build-out of military installations on Indigenous lands associated with the AUKUS agreement and the United States Force Posture Initiatives. The Hayes family have lived with the occupation of their Country, Kuyunba, by the Pine Gap military intelligence facility, for sixty years.
The book as object: Angela O’Keeffe’s Phantom Days
A few years ago, I overheard an antiquarian bookseller tell one of his customers that while he didn’t mind reading, he was really more interested in the “book as object”. I was reminded of this while reading Angela O’Keeffe’s third novel, Phantom Days, in which one of the two principal narrators is a book. The narrators in question, named simply Book, is not a novel or a narrative but a particular object.
The balkanisation of the West
I remember life being deceptively ordinary in the period leading to Yugoslavia’s collapse. I went to high school, hung out with friends, and took pride in growing my cassette collection. My father deeply believed in the state motto “brotherhood and unity” and raised us as Yugoslavs. One afternoon, walking home from school with two friends, one casually used the word Balija, a slur for Bosnian Muslims. As it was the first time I heard it, I asked what it meant.
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Thank you for your patience as we finalise the distribution of our upcoming Jul/Aug issue 260. We’re currently working through some adjustments in our new print and distribution process, and we want to let you know that the journals will arrive at our office next week, with shipping to commence shortly after. But here’s the good news: all print subscribers will receive a one-off artist print by beloved friend-of-Overland and frequent contributor Sofia Sabbagh, included with their journal.
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I appear unto the living, the disabled angel of death casting fear into your eyes when you look, & look away. It hurts you to look. I am adorned by hellfire & brimstone, haloed in something unholy: death hanging on my shoulders, death snapping at my wheels. Perhaps my teeth are fiercer, my voice a rattling moan. A wildness in my glare. A wistfulness. A certain crippled melancholy. If I smile it tinges bitter, my heart brimming with pity or guilt or whatever fills you when you see me.
Our support for the open letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.
The Billionaire Frontier: sovereignty, military myths, and the collapse of the Australia-Israel parallel
Two months ago, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart stood before the News Corp National Bush Summit in Townsville and proposed a radical reshaping of northern Queensland’s landscape. Her plan was to establish an Israeli-backed arms manufacturing hub near Prairie, west of Townsville, by offering free land and transport incentives to Israeli defence specialists. The ultimate goal was to build an advanced research and manufacturing base for war drones and missile defence systems like Israel’s Iron Dome.
“Man below, losing hope”: Adam Ouston’s Mine
The single-sentence novel is having a moment. In the past three years alone, two Nobels (Fosse, Krasznahorkai) and a Pulitzer (Kraus) have been awarded to authors who have written them. While it might seem strange for such a form to be resonating in our age of depleted attention spans, stopless syntax does embody another contemporary feeling: that the end is nigh, and yet it never arrives. Adam Ouston has thrown an antipodean hat into the single-sentence ring with his second novel, Mine.
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Date yourself, my therapist says. It’s not a sex thing. More a stop dating jerks thing. I take my body to the movies. I pay for a seat in the back row and feed her popcorn while the opening credits roll. It’s a thriller, one of those recent ones made to look old. I guess at who the killer will turn out to be. My body clenches when the virgin is stabbed in the back, her body collapsing into the velvety drapes of the hotel lobby.
JRR Tolkien, anti-fascist
Ever since The Lord of the Rings was published seventy years ago, readers have debated the book’s core politics. In the 1970s, an Italian neo-fascist party the MSI organised “Hobbit Camps” to train its cadres in the struggle against democracy. The reactionary data analysts of Palantir named their company after a magical artefact found in Tolkien’s novel. Elon Musk posts periodically about the Hobbits, claiming that their survival depended on “hard men”, the true heroes of the fantasy work.