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.
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is an award-winning Zambian novelist and short-story writer living and studying in Minnesota. Her first novel, The Mourning Bird, won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in journals in France, Canada, Britain, Nigeria, Zambia, the UK and the USA and is forthcoming in the Red Rock Review. She’s a former Hubert H Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellow (2018/2019) and Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow (2017).
