Overland No.254

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. Features: Meredith and Mental Life Daniel Lopez “A State of Waste”: Myall Creek, the Sydney Herald and the Foundations of Australian Capitalism Jeff Sparrow Writing after … October 7 Anon The Ruse of Safety Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange Fiction: Who Rattles the Night? Annie Zhang Crime and Punishment Tim Loveday Event Horizon Marc Barrett Lovebirds Sahib Nazari Poetry: Celestial Tree Andrew Brooks Torpor Angela Gardner Febrile William Fox Animalia Utopia John Kinsella larapuna Chloe Mayne [18. Palpebral] (from 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem) Nam Le Judging Notes for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2023 Toby Fitch, Elena Gomez, Andy Jackson and Autumn Royal Editorial Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk