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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... no. 194 Autumn 2009 of Overland est. 1954 Overland
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
There's Something about Gough (1), Mungo MacCallum , single work review
— Review of Gough Whitlam : A Moment in History : The Biography. Volume 1 Jenny Hocking , 2008 single work biography ; (p. 80-81)
There's Something about Gough (2), Carmen Lawrence , single work review
— Review of Gough Whitlam : A Moment in History : The Biography. Volume 1 Jenny Hocking , 2008 single work biography ; (p. 82-83)
Affectionate Intensity, Lyndall Ryan , single work review
— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence ; (p. 84-86)
Narratives of Exile, Delia Allen , single work review
— Review of Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi , 2008 single work autobiography ; Sydney Journals : Reflections 1970-2000 Antigone Kefala , 2008 selected work diary ; (p. 88)
Caught in the Melee We Look for Signals : New Poetry, Kerry Leves , single work review
— Review of The Hungry Mile and Other Poems Ernest Antony , 1930 selected work poetry ; The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead Greg McLaren , 2007 selected work poetry ; So Much Light James Charlton , 2007 selected work poetry ; Four Quarters : A Collection of Poems Tom Petsinis , 2006 selected work poetry ; Notebook of Signs and 3 Other Small Books M. T. C. Cronin , 2007 selected work poetry ; A Raiders Guide Michael Farrell , 2008 selected work poetry ; Big Numbers : New and Selected Poems TT. O , 2008 selected work poetry ; (p. 89-92)
Forms of Hunger and Hysteria : Recent Australian Fiction, Kalinda Ashton , single work review
— Review of The Slap Christos Tsiolkas , 2008 single work novel ; Vertigo : A Pastoral Amanda Lohrey , 2008 single work novella ; Wanting Richard Flanagan , 2008 single work novel ; Bird Sophie Cunningham , 2008 single work novel ; Disquiet Julia Leigh , 2008 single work novella ;

Ashton discusses narrative technique and the notion of family in Tsiolkas's The Slap, Cunningham's Bird, Flanagan's Wanting, Leigh's Disquiet, and Lohrey's Vertigo. The review spends most time on The Slap, and Ashton argues that the novel's focus on family should be seen not as a flight from politics, but as 'a flight to the politics of the middle-class family' (93).

 (p. 93-96)
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