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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Alexandra Dane

Alexandra Dane researches contemporary book cultures, focussing on the relationship between gender, literary consecration and the influence of formal and informal literary networks. She is the author of Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture (Palgrave Macmillan).

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14 March 202126 April 2021 · Sexual violence

Promising Young Woman and the causes of women’s rage

Lizzie O'Shea, Rebecca Giblin, Kate Seear and Alexandra Dane

As women around the world gather to march, we could not let this moment pass without challenging some of the criticism of Promising Young Woman which we feel misses the central point – and, by extension, the reason why women’s rage is again bubbling towards boiling point.