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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Evan Fleischer

Evan Fleischer is a writer at large. In addition to Overland, his work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Lifted Brow, Guardian, Washington Post, and numerous other publications.

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6 March 201724 March 2017 · Climate politics

The principal preoccupation of writers the world over

Evan Fleischer

The Los Angeles Review of Books takes note of the work of Amitav Ghosh, who mulls that ‘[I]f the urgency of a subject were indeed a criterion of its seriousness, then, considering what climate change actually portends for the future of the earth, it should surely follow that this would be the principal preoccupation of writers the world over.’