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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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Lachlan Summers

Lachlan Summers grew up on Bundjalung country and now lives in Mexico City researching earthquakes. His recent essays have appeared in Exertions and Noēma, and he is a contributing editor at the Society for Cultural Anthropology and The Familiar Strange. His tweets, broadly reviled, are at @backup_sandwich.

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Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Environment

Feature | An almanac of immeasurable things

Lachlan Summers

If you were in the Western Hemisphere, and you walked into a room full of strangers talking about Katrina, Harvey, Mitchell or Maria, you might know who they were talking about. If you were from Taiwan, you might introduce Fanapi; if you were several centuries old, you could talk about San Francisco.