Volume 7 | Number 5 | Issue 31 | December 1997
Harry Orsman’s NZ English
Curnow at the “utmost reach of his power”
Mark Williams admires Lloyd Jones’s magic realism
Sharon Crosbie storms up on cooks
Alan Riach assesses the Manhire school
Wendy Pond challenges historians’ grip on the treaty
David Eggleton on two Maori retrospectives
Nicholas Reid reels through our forgotten silver
Brian Turner’s autobiography
Gregory O’Brien on folk art
Andy Dennis on a new bird guide
Harvey McQueen turns over a new crop
John Halligan looks into the passion for contracts
Diane Hebley scans the year’s children’s books
Alan Loney sizes up a book Guide
Heather Murray on Mansfield’s notebooks
Jane Stafford on poets making a difference
Kim Worthington on new novels
Anne French on short stories
Colin James asks: are we all pluralists now?
Paul Goldsmith on Jones on Muldoon
Janet Hughes wonders about vows
Bryan Gilling on a biblical history
Diana Bridge on two Himalayan helpers
Ramesh Thakur on our Asian aspect
Poem: Kapka Kassabova
Poem: John O’Connor