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.
Suzanne Hermanoczki is a writer and teacher of nonfiction and fiction. Her critical and creative works on death narratives and photography, trauma and the immigrant journey, gringos, magic realism, and bi/multi-cultural identity, have been published in local and international journals. She began studying Creative Writing at The University of Hong Kong, and has since completed a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, where she works.
