Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Alana Hunt writes and makes art. In recent years, much of her work has come about through long conversations – listening to and speaking – with the sounds and currents that emanate from Indian-occupied Kashmir. Alana lives in the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia where she continues to learn about the contemporary legacies of colonisation, the ambivalent nature of modernity and the fabric of community.
