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.
Josephine Scicluna is a poet, fiction and essay writer inventing and exploring diverse hybrid forms. But, really, she’s writing about music and mobile phones, love and crumbling houses. She collaborates with musicians, playwrights and artists to create performance works and recordings for radio broadcast, which have been featured on RRR and ABC Radio National. She’s won several awards for her short fiction, and her poetry, fiction and essays have been published in various journals including In/Stead, Verandah and The Age.
