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.
Judyth Emanuel has short stories published in literary magazines Electric Literature Recommended Reading, Intrinsick, STORGY and One Page. In 2016, she was awarded a Residential Fellowship at Varuna Writers’ House and, in 2013, she was accepted in the One Story Workshop at the Center for Fiction in New York. Judyth resides in Sydney, where she is currently working on a second collection of short stories and a travel memoir.
