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.
Lefa is a writer, editor and producer from Melbourne. She is the founder of Women in Literary Arts Australia, an initiative aiming to foster community and promote women in the literary arts. She is the co-editor of Green Agenda, a publishing project of the Green Institute, and was the Creative Producer at Express Media from 2011-2014. Her writing can be found in the book anthologies The Emerging Writer and The Noobz, and in publications including SBS and The Big Issue.
