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.
Jane Turner Goldsmith's first novel Poinciana was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Prize in 2007. She has also published a junior novel and edited a non-fiction anthology of adoption stories. Jane has had short stories, poetry, flash pieces and articles published, both print and online. She works as a psychologist in workplace counselling and is embarking on a new novel-in-stories about essential workers for her creative writing PhD at the University of Adelaide.
