Overland is Australia's most exciting literary magazine -- and the only major journal to publish from an explicitly progressive perspective. Since 1954, it has featured essays, fiction, poetry, reviews, comments and artwork from the nation's best writers and thinkers, from Patrick White to Cate Kennedy. 'Overland' continues to highlight ideas and authors you won't find anywhere else. In edition 223 Overland: * The cultural history of sex dolls * Contemporary myths about calss * The internationalisation of Black Lives Matter * The bizarre contradictions of conservative politics today * Cynicism among homicide detectives * The many masks of homophobia * Why Australia is afraid of technology This issue also contains original fiction, the Nakata Brophy prize-winning poem and new poetry editor Toby Fitch's first selection, as well as columns by Overland regulars: Alison Croggon, Mel Campbell, Giovanni Tiso and Natalie Harkin.