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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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James OConnor

James O’Connor is a freelance journalist and critic, and a university tutor and lecturer. He mostly writes about videogames, but also dabbles in film, literature and now punctuation, it seems. He is based in Adelaide and tweets at @Jickle.

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22 May 201715 June 2017 · Writing

Serially abused: why everyone’s wrong about the Oxford comma

James OConnor

I am not the type to correct someone’s possessive use of ‘it’s’ on a Facebook post, and the moment I correct someone on using ‘amount’ when they should have used ‘number’ I feel embarrassed for myself rather than for them.