Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso.bsky.social
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
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“When it comes to fiction, then, I am arguing that the anxiety that provoked the writing of Juice is incited by, not detached from, capitalism and power, and no less dangerous than what Winton describes as apathy.”
Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE
Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE
Juice and the politics of anxiety - Overland literary journal
Recently longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize, Tim Winton’s latest novel, Juice is not — as Winton himself and critics have described it — hopeful and a “creative projection of ‘wondering…’’”...
overland.org.au
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
“When it comes to fiction, then, I am arguing that the anxiety that provoked the writing of Juice is incited by, not detached from, capitalism and power, and no less dangerous than what Winton describes as apathy.”
Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE
Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE
Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones
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This is disgusting antisemitic language from the Australian PM - Herzog is the head of state of a genocidal regime, not the head of state of all Jews.
We are not Israel, and the only people who win when Jews and Israel are conflated are antisemites and Zionists.
We are not Israel, and the only people who win when Jews and Israel are conflated are antisemites and Zionists.
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
This is disgusting antisemitic language from the Australian PM - Herzog is the head of state of a genocidal regime, not the head of state of all Jews.
We are not Israel, and the only people who win when Jews and Israel are conflated are antisemites and Zionists.
We are not Israel, and the only people who win when Jews and Israel are conflated are antisemites and Zionists.
Captain Ragout reporting for duty
February 9, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Captain Ragout reporting for duty
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“This is the story of what this win means — not just for the Starkeys and the Kokatha people, but for the global arms trade and the corporate actors operating on Indigenous lands.”
Miriam Deprez on how Kokatha custodians took on multinationals in the Woomera Prohibited Area.
Miriam Deprez on how Kokatha custodians took on multinationals in the Woomera Prohibited Area.
Holding the line: how Kokatha Custodians took on multinationals in the Woomera Prohibited Area — and won - Overland literary journal
Andrew Starkey knew the fight to protect Indigenous cultural heritage couldn’t be fought via the usual channels of justice. Instead, the Starkeys took Saab Australia to the Australian National Contact...
overland.org.au
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
“This is the story of what this win means — not just for the Starkeys and the Kokatha people, but for the global arms trade and the corporate actors operating on Indigenous lands.”
Miriam Deprez on how Kokatha custodians took on multinationals in the Woomera Prohibited Area.
Miriam Deprez on how Kokatha custodians took on multinationals in the Woomera Prohibited Area.
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The old Fred Allen joke finally realised: “I can’t understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
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February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The old Fred Allen joke finally realised: “I can’t understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
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Our Summer Program concludes today with MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE COMPILATION VOL 9, a brilliant new poem by Lach Valentine. Generously supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social.
Massive glacier collapse compilation vol 9 - Overland literary journal
we are pointing at anything / that flickers, flowers, and beats / our hearts, the trees, and the stars / all set to be slaughtered / in the Anthropocene™ we have set / as revenge for the exile
overland.org.au
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Our Summer Program concludes today with MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE COMPILATION VOL 9, a brilliant new poem by Lach Valentine. Generously supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social.
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“But Gabriel was not alone, no matter how far his woolly thoughts stretched, and how eternal time felt.”
Our Summer program continues with the first Friday Fiction for 2026: BALM OF HURT MINDS by Claire Cao.
Our Summer program continues with the first Friday Fiction for 2026: BALM OF HURT MINDS by Claire Cao.
Balm of hurt minds - Overland literary journal
In the small hours, the world below Gabriel’s window began to swell with life but he took no notice. He had long learned to tune out the screech of traffic, the mechanical whirr of the going-home trai...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:20 AM
“But Gabriel was not alone, no matter how far his woolly thoughts stretched, and how eternal time felt.”
Our Summer program continues with the first Friday Fiction for 2026: BALM OF HURT MINDS by Claire Cao.
Our Summer program continues with the first Friday Fiction for 2026: BALM OF HURT MINDS by Claire Cao.
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“And so ends an obscene, morally violent and deceptive novel.”
In what may be Overland’s most Summer read ever, John Kinsella engages in a masterful, labyrinthine (and parenthetical, elliptical …) reading of Hawthorne’s THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
In what may be Overland’s most Summer read ever, John Kinsella engages in a masterful, labyrinthine (and parenthetical, elliptical …) reading of Hawthorne’s THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
The anxieties of a singular usage of parenthesis: a brief observation of a “fireside tale” that is a novel - Overland literary journal
The gothic valorisation of colonial legacy is complete, the purification ritual completed, and moral responsibility abrogated. What does this mean for the bracketed social comment? That social convent...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:41 AM
“And so ends an obscene, morally violent and deceptive novel.”
In what may be Overland’s most Summer read ever, John Kinsella engages in a masterful, labyrinthine (and parenthetical, elliptical …) reading of Hawthorne’s THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
In what may be Overland’s most Summer read ever, John Kinsella engages in a masterful, labyrinthine (and parenthetical, elliptical …) reading of Hawthorne’s THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
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We've lost Meanjin, a situation that was completely unthinkable until it actually happened. Don't think we won't lose more. It's quite clear there are people who don't care what they destroy for political gain. Literary culture in this country is already frayed. Don't let it come apart entirely.
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
We've lost Meanjin, a situation that was completely unthinkable until it actually happened. Don't think we won't lose more. It's quite clear there are people who don't care what they destroy for political gain. Literary culture in this country is already frayed. Don't let it come apart entirely.
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If we don't have places like @overlandjournal.bsky.social who will publish dissenting voices, writers who make the hard and uncomfortable arguments, unapologetic left-wing positions, and who do the work of helping writers find their voices, we don't have literature in this country
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
If we don't have places like @overlandjournal.bsky.social who will publish dissenting voices, writers who make the hard and uncomfortable arguments, unapologetic left-wing positions, and who do the work of helping writers find their voices, we don't have literature in this country
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In addition to supporting Palestinian writers like Randa Abdel-Fattah, and authors and artists who withdrew from AWW in solidarity, spare a thought for the "little" magazines like @overlandjournal.bsky.social, who have relentlessly stood up for Palestine and have been comprehensively defunded for it
January 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
In addition to supporting Palestinian writers like Randa Abdel-Fattah, and authors and artists who withdrew from AWW in solidarity, spare a thought for the "little" magazines like @overlandjournal.bsky.social, who have relentlessly stood up for Palestine and have been comprehensively defunded for it
As on old Twitter, my best posts are always the ones nobody notices.
That was the statement by Tracey Whiting AM. Now we wait for Tracey Whiting PM for the real goss.
January 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM
As on old Twitter, my best posts are always the ones nobody notices.
That was the statement by Tracey Whiting AM. Now we wait for Tracey Whiting PM for the real goss.
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
That was the statement by Tracey Whiting AM. Now we wait for Tracey Whiting PM for the real goss.
When I leave my job, I also plan to thank my terrific as fuck team.
January 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
When I leave my job, I also plan to thank my terrific as fuck team.
The wind did a bit of landscaping overnight, knocking down the main surviving offshoot of an olive tree my mum had given us in 2000. (Though another tiny offshoot remains. You can't kill olive trees.)
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The wind did a bit of landscaping overnight, knocking down the main surviving offshoot of an olive tree my mum had given us in 2000. (Though another tiny offshoot remains. You can't kill olive trees.)
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[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
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January 11, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Heh.
Perfect explanation of the AI market bubble.
Perfect explanation of the AI market bubble.
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Heh.
Perfect explanation of the AI market bubble.
Perfect explanation of the AI market bubble.
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This screenshot was how I discovered that Graham Linehan has given up pretending that he's anything other than a violent misogynist, and is now retweeting posts that lesbians actually want to get shot in the face by masked government agents.
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This screenshot was how I discovered that Graham Linehan has given up pretending that he's anything other than a violent misogynist, and is now retweeting posts that lesbians actually want to get shot in the face by masked government agents.
Ardern hasn't pulled out. bsky.app/profile/grog...
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Ardern hasn't pulled out. bsky.app/profile/grog...
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“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.”
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to “ambient antisemitism” - Overland literary journal
The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its upcoming Writers’ Week gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.
overland.org.au
January 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.”
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
Fair play Colbert, that is up there with the Daily Show calling Blagojevich "Scumbag Million-Hairs"
January 7, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Fair play Colbert, that is up there with the Daily Show calling Blagojevich "Scumbag Million-Hairs"