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Rethinking the past, Melissa Laing
Re-inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780992245382 As I opened a blank document to begin this review, a tweet popped up in my feed from Morgan Godfery: “Sure,” Godfery writes…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 116, Melissa Laing, Roger Horrocks, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
For us there is only the trying, Paul Morris
Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-Fiction 2015 Jolisa Gracewood and Susanna Andrew (eds) Auckland University Press, $30.00 ISBN 9781869408244 Greatest Hits: A Quarter Century of Journalistic Encounters and Notes from Lost Cities David Cohen Mākaro Press, $35.00 ISBN 9780994106544…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Cohen, Issue 110, Jolisa Gracewood, Mākaro Press, Paul Morris, Susanna Andrew, Winter 2015
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Lifting the lid, Colin Peacock
Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 9781927213360 The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans Michael Field Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249024 “Laws are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Colin Peacock, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 109, Michael Field, Nicky Hager
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Development journalism, Alex Perrottet
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific David Robie Little Island Press ISBN 9781877484254 It’s easy to read a book written by a journalist, especially if it covers wars, environmental disasters, independence struggles, and…
Tagged with: Alex Perrottet, David Robie, Issue 107, Little Island Press, Spring 2014
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Auckland’s newspaper wars, Grant Hannis
Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News David Hastings Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407384 Histories of New Zealand newspapers are usually boring. I’m sure anyone who’s tried to read Guy Scholefield’s 1958 history of New Zealand newspapers has…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, Grant Hannis, Issue 103, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Rugby, shopping and Shortland Street, Tony Schirato
Ruling Passions: Essays on Just About Everything Nick Perry Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372896 One of the main functions of a book review is to give readers an idea as to whether or to what extent the title…
Tagged with: Issue 99, Nick Perry, Otago University Press, Spring 2012, Tony Schirato
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Column centimetres and sound bites, Peter Calder
Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar (eds) AUT Media, $39.95, ISBN 9780958299763 For an industry that spends its time holding others to account, journalism has a remarkable…
Tagged with: AUT Media, Issue 99, Martin Hirst, Peter Calder, Sean Phelan, Spring 2012, Verica Rupar
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Frame by frame, Paul Wolffram
New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History Diane Pivac (ed) with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald Te Papa Press, $85.00, ISBN 9781877385667 It is rare to find a non-fiction book that offers such a fascinating and comprehensive view of its…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Diane Pivac, Frank Stark, Issue 97, Lawrence McDonald, Paul Wolffram, Te Papa Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Getting it covered, Jenny Nicholls
Posted in Comment, ebooks, Media