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.
Emma Ashmere's new short story collection Dreams They Forgot is published by Wakefield Press. Her writing has appeared in Overland, The Age, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and the Commonwealth Writers magazine 'adda'. Her novel The Floating Garden was shortlisted for the Small Press Network MUBA 2016. She lives on Bundjalung country in northern NSW.
