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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Jim McCormack

Jim McCormack is a Melbourne-based writer. His current research interests include representations of memory and gender in cinema.

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6 September 201628 September 2016 · Reviews

More than a nostalgic fling: how to read Stranger Things

Jim McCormack

All of which begs the question: is there something about our present age that fans of Stranger Things want to escape from? The nostalgia in Stranger Things is in marked contrast to Netflix’s other major release of the northern summer, the fourth season of Orange Is the New Black. Netflix’s prison dramedy offered no escape from the America of 2016, as it confronted the racist violence of the state and its contracted private penitentiaries.