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“The play’s the thing”, Sarah Ross
Ngaio Marsh’s Hamlet: The 1943 Production Script Polly Hoskins (ed) Canterbury University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781988503134 In August 1943, as New Zealand troops in Europe began the Italian campaign, the Canterbury University College Drama Society (CUCDS) performed Hamlet to sell-out…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 128, Ngaio Marsh, Polly Hoskins, Sarah Ross, Summer 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
Express lane, John Horrocks
Peat Lynn Jenner Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531694 Lynn Jenner lives on the Kāpiti Coast, not far from the new expressway between Mackays Crossing and Peka Peka. She writes in Peat that thinking about the construction of the road…
Tagged with: Issue 128, John Horrocks, Lynn Jenner, Otago University Press, Summer 2019
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Lies and damned lies, Gyles Beckford
Truthteller Stephen Davis Exisle Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9781925335897 “Aren’t we all investigative journalists?” my colleague asked, as we lamented the quality of the coffee at an early hour in the newsroom kitchen. “We’d all like to think so,” I replied.…
Tagged with: Exisle Publishing, Gyles Beckford, Issue 127, Spring 2019, Stephen Davis
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Diplomat, translator, academic … Ken Ross
From Cairo To Cassino: A Memoir Of Paddy Costello Dan Davin Cold Hub Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473474485 Paddy Costello’s forte was Russian scholarship. Dan Davin’s was academic publishing. Each acquired other formidable reputations by which they are better known to…
Tagged with: Cold Hub Pres, Dan Davin, Issue 127, Ken Ross, Paddy Costello, Spring 2019
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Watching the watchers, Ian F Grant
Dead Letters: Censorship And Subversion In New Zealand 1914–1920 Jared Davidson Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531526 Dead Letters contains intriguing detail about a random cast of now-forgotten people who were considered likely subversives in New Zealand during WWI. For…
Tagged with: Ian F Grant, Issue 127, Jared Davidson, Otago University Press, Spring 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Searching for the whole truth, Bill Hastings
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life Sarah Gaitanos Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776562176 In Wellington, it is difficult to find a lawyer, judge, or even a member of the Mongrel Mob of a certain age, who does not have a…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Issue 127, Sarah Gaitanos, Spring 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The Hutt Valley takes Manhattan … Murray Bramwell
Book Of Cohen David Cohen Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493882 Book Of Cohen is a singular volume with multiple objectives: “This was always going to be a work by one Cohen (that would be me) on another Cohen (that would…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Issue 127, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2019, Steele Roberts
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Hurting in different ways, Veronica Maughan
Life On Volcanoes: Contemporary Essays Janet McAllister (ed) Beatnik Publishing, $25.00, ISBN 9780994138392 Life On Volcanoes: Contemporary Essays first and foremost intimidated me. I am 19, a second-year university student. I work part-time in a café, as a waitress. I…
Tagged with: Beatnik Publishing, Issue 127, Janet McAllister, Spring 2019, Veronica Maughan
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Is work what makes us human? Alex Beattie
How To Be Human In The Digital Economy Nicholas Agar MIT Press, $27.00, ISBN 9780262038744 Take a minute to consider the speed with which technology is changing our everyday lives. The opening hours of local banks have reduced due to…
Tagged with: Alex Beattie, Issue 127, MIT Press, Nicholas Agar, Spring 2019
Posted in Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
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