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On not relying on truthiness, Brian Easton
A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Random House, $39.00, ISBN 9780143773269 In 1990, a comet brightened the New Zealand literary scene and society with the publication of Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, for it involved both an extraordinary…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Brian Easton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The resilience of children, Ann Beaglehole
Frederick’s Coat Alan Duff Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781869415662 Bangs Stevan Eldred-Grigg Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143568063 Waiting for Elizabeth Joan Rosier-Jones Tangerine Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9780987664617 Alan Duff is one of our most esteemed writers. His best-known novel Once Were Warriors…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Ann Beaglehole, Issue 104, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2013, Tangerine Publications, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The good, the bad and the epic, Louise O’Brien
As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 0143011677 Who Sings for Lu? Alan Duff Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869790585 The Adventures of Vela Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869693633 Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver describes…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Albert Wendt, Alison Wong, Autumn 2010, Huia, Issue 89, Louise O’Brien, Penguin Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Another thing about Jake, Otto Heim
Jake’s Long Shadow Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869415116 The first impression of Alan Duff’s new novel makes you expect a work of probing substance. Its cover is reminiscent of Heretaunga Pat Baker’s Behind the Tattooed Face. Featuring Brian Brake’s…
Quo vadis, Alan? Simone Drichel
Szabad Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414721 Reviewing a new novel by – notoriously controversial – Alan Duff is not only a daunting, but also a somewhat futile exercise. Judgements regarding Duff’s work tend to be firmly in place: there…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Issue 52, Simone Drichel, Summer 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Plumb Duff, Otto Heim
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir Alan Duff Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 58 6 Alan Duff frames his autobiography with scenes of his post-Warriors success: here we see him at ease with Prime Ministers, rubbing shoulders…
Plumb Duff, Otto Heim
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir Alan Duff Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 58 6 Alan Duff frames his autobiography with scenes of his post-Warriors success: here we see him at ease with Prime Ministers, rubbing shoulders…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Issue 43, Otto Heim, Tandem Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, December 2000, Issue 46, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Random House, Robyn Kahukiwa
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Immersion therapy, Ruth Brown
Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction Otto Heim Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 182 4 Both Sides of the Moon Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 362 8 After retiring from journalism,…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Auckland University Press, Issue 37, Otto Heim, Ruth Brown, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Māori, Review
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