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Editorial – Issue 37

Posted on March 16, 1999 by NZ Books

Peons in the literary plantations Philip Temple The Literature section of “Employment in the Cultural Sector”, published last year by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Statistics New Zealand, tells us that full-time authors are earning an average of almost $34,000…

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Editorial – Issue 45

Posted on March 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Annus mirabilis for poetry This issue includes reviews of collections by five of our major poets – Lauris Edmond, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, C K Stead, Jenny Bornholdt and Andrew Johnston. While this might seem an unusually generous allocation, in fact it…

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Editorial – Issue 36

Posted on December 28, 1998 by NZ Books

Earning our colours Readers will have noticed that since October New Zealand Books has looked rather different. Yes, we have broken into colour and are sporting a cleaner and more striking cover, designed for us by Hamish Thompson of Whitireia…

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Editorial – Issue 35

Posted on October 28, 1998 by NZ Books

Guest editorial: No longer Charing Cross Road Once upon a time New Zealand had a fortress economy and by all accounts life was good but you couldn’t actually buy much. I didn’t live here then, but know from my own…

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Editorial – Issue 33

Posted on June 5, 1998 by NZ Books

Virgin on the Ridiculous, Hugh Roberts Te Papa displays a condom-covered Virgin and all hell breaks loose. Outrage is the order of the day. Irate Catholics drag their children to Te Papa’s foyer to be the shock-troops of an emotive…

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Editorial – Issue 32

Posted on March 5, 1998 by NZ Books

Adding to the cultural capital As New Zealand Books moves into its eighth year of existence and a new editorial regime, it can be said to have demonstrated some important things. One is that, under Colin James’s enterprising editorship, it…

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Editorial – Issue 31

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Changing of the guard Independence, Colin James More than Rogernomics, the recovery of the treaty and the other momentous policy changes, the 1980s was the decade of independence. In that decade the people who make up New Zealand found a voice:…

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Editorial – Issue 26

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

Forward — and back Next issue we welcome back Fiona Kidman. Her new novel, Ricochet Baby, gives us the opportunity to make a retrospective assessment of her work. We expect that will be a centrepiece of our March number. Meantime,…

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Editorial – Issue 23

Posted on June 8, 1996 by NZ Books

Editor’s note, June 1996 Criticism In this issue we carry three articles in one way or another dealing with literary criticism — on a bad book on Mansfield, on writers and their critics and on the appropriate context for Maori…

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Editorial – Issue 20

Posted on October 7, 1995 by NZ Books

Editorial – Issue 20, October 1995 Two awards for the price of one The Wattie has long gone, beans having been swapped for wine. Now the New Zealand book awards go, too. There is to be from next year one…

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