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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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Bonnie Etherington

Bonnie Etherington is a Lecturer in Literary and Creative Communication at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, and from 2020 to 2021 was the CU Boulder Environmental Futures Postdoctoral Fellow. Bonnie was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and raised in West Papua.

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Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Health

Feature | A fried egg in space

Bonnie Etherington

In January 2021, one day after thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, I underwent a craniotomy far from home in Loveland, Colorado to remove a low-grade tumour from the front left of my brain. In 2016 the World Health Organization stopped calling such tumours ‘benign’ as, when it comes to the brain, anything where it should not be cannot be classed as benign.