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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Xenia Hanusiak

Xenia Hanusiak is an Australian, New York-based essayist, scholar and critic who is published by the London Financial Times, the Chicago Tribune, NY Times, Music and Literature, and Psyche AEON.

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28 September 20213 November 2021 · Culture

Festivals in crisis

Xenia Hanusiak

The argument to save festivals at all costs is a powerful one. Festivals are vital to our societal cohesion. When successful, festivals reinvigorate a sense of communality. Their multi-dimensional programming activates our sense of curiosity about what’s next, lead us to consider questions fundamental to the human condition, and offer provocations.