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.
Eliza Henry-Jones is an author based in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. Her debut novel In the Quiet is out now through Fourth Estate. Shortlisted for the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, In the Quiet was longlisted for the 2015 Indie Book Awards, longlisted for the 2015 ABIA Awards and shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her second novel Ache is being published in June 2017.
