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.
Ennis Cehic is a writer and creative from Melbourne. Aside from working as brand director of SAMPLE Brew, Ennis writes fiction, poetry and essays. He’s been published in The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Going Down Swinging, The Age, Dialect (Express Media) and All The Best Radio. He’s a former member of the West Writers Group from Footscray Arts and can be found posting photos with poetry at @enniscehic.
