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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", 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.