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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
Poem – Emma Neale
Satellite Our six-year-old watches me dress as we talk about the planets, where rockets have landed, where people can’t go, how the surface of some distant Earth is unknowable at the moment and he frowns and stares with a mathematician’s…
Trials and lessons, Anne Else
A History of the “Unfortunate Experiment” at National Women’s Hospital Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 978186940435 The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, 1987-88 Joanna Manning (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781877242458 July 2008 marked…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 89, Joanna Manning, Linda Bryder
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Drawing-room stories, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $50.00, ISBN 9780143006510 Old South is a work that should be a welcome newcomer to the growing list of leading titles in New Zealand history. The book…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The future world of 1881, John O’Leary
The Great Romance The Inhabitant; Dominic Alessio (ed) University of Nebraska Press, US$17.95, ISBN 9780803259966 At a time when James Cameron’s film Avatar is breaking box-office records, thanks largely to the hyper-vivid, computer-generated images of the planet Pandora provided by…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Dominic Alessio, Issue 89, John O’Leary, University of Nebraska Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Otherwise fine, Simon Upton
Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who’s Right About Climate Change Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869790455 When I learnt that Gareth Morgan was writing a book on climate change I groaned. Out of politeness, it was…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Gareth Morgan, Issue 89, John McCrystal, Simon Upton
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Still sacred lives, Helen Watson White
Red Studio: Forty-five Prints John Z Robinson Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877460388 John Z Robinson is an artist in many media, and in two major modes. One is the ebullient use of colour in free-style painting; the other the witty,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Helen Watson White, Issue 89, John Z Robinson, Longacre Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Might and rights, Elspeth Sandys
Field Punishment No 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition David Grant, paintings by Bob Kerr Steele Roberts, $34.99, ISBN 9781877448461 In his introduction to Field Punishment No 1, David Grant expresses his satisfaction that New Zealand…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Bob Kerr, David Grant, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 89, Steele Roberts
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
A figure in motion, Stella Ramage
Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869404222 Last September I visited the blockbuster Salvador Dali exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Glamorous and edifying though it was, I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review