This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.
Christopher Harrington is a cultural entomologist who specialises in the representation of bees in literature. He is particularly interested early thinking about honeybee intelligence, the concept of emotional rationalism, pest discourse, Victorian botany, Victorian entomology, Victorian Literature, anthropogenic hierarchies of animality (domestic, wild, feral), the history of animal rights, eugenics, emergentalism, bioethics, and scientific patriarchy. Chris also draws comics, teaches literature, and enjoys writing and reading fiction.
