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.
Chloe Adams is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. She has been published widely by Fairfax and News Corp mastheads and previously worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the author of a chapter in the book of essays, The Future by Us, published by Hardie Grant in 2009, as well as the first journalism textbook written for East Timorese journalists and published in the official language of Tetum. She is a recipient of the ASA's 2019 Mentorship Program.
