Blog Archives

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: , , , ,
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: , , , , , , ,
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: , , , , , ,
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: , , , ,
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: , , , ,
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review

Getting it covered, Jenny Nicholls

North & South magazine art director Jenny Nicholls looks into the future of book design. Recently I was sent a photography book published by Taschen – Mario Testino: Private View – to review. I had been looking forward to the…
Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Comment, ebooks, Media

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: , , , ,
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: , , , , , ,
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review

Windows to wonder, Tristan Clark

How to Play a Video Game Pippin Barr Awa Press, $19.95, ISBN 9781877551314   When I was 10, my brother and I stayed the night at my best friend’s house. While there, we hired a Sega Mega Drive – a…
Tagged with: , , , ,
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: , , , , , ,
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Search the archive

More results...

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Filter by Categories
Architecture
Art
Autobiography
Awards
Biography
Byline
Children
Comment
Contents
ebooks
Economics
Editorial
Education
Essays
Extract
Fiction
Gender
Graphic novel
Health
History
Imprints
Language
Lecture
Letters
Letters
Literature
Māori
Media
Memoir
Music
Natural History
Non-fiction
Obituaries
Opinion
Pacific
Photography
Plays
Poem
Poetry
Politics & Law
Psychology
Religion
Review
Science
Short stories
Sociology
Sport
War
YA Reviewers
Young adults
Recent issues: subscriber-only access

    Subscribe to NZ Books to access the issues above

    Search by category

    See more