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Back in the day, Chris Else
Tane’s War Brendaniel Weir Cloud Ink Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473415648 Gone to Pegasus Tess Redgrave Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780473419196 Rotoroa Amy Head Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561919 Over the last ten years or so, the number of established New…
Tagged with: Amy Head, Brendaniel Weir, Chris Else, Cloud Ink Press, Issue 124, Submarine, Summer 2018, Tess Redgrave, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The blind men and the elephant, Chris Else
Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media David Ciccoricco University of Nebraska Press, $55.00, ISBN 9780803248373 I earn a good part of my living by assessing manuscripts. For a fee, I read a text and write a report on it, which, I…
Tagged with: Chris Else, David Ciccoricco, Issue 116, Summer 2016, University of Nebraska Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Telling our stories to ourselves, Chris Else
Jerome Kaino: My Story Jerome Kaino Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143573562 Wildboy Brando Yelavich Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143573159 The Good Doctor Lance O’Sullivan Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572510 How Bizarre Simon Grigg Awa Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781927249222 Lydia Bradey: Going Up is…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Brando Yelavich, Chris Else, Issue 113, Lance O’Sullivan, Laurence Fearnley, Lydia Bradey, Penguin Books, Simon Grigg
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The quality question, Chris Else
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869405892 I have a conflict of interest here: I am one of those writers with a substantial body of published…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Chris Else, Issue 101, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Difficult presents, Chris Else
The Spaces Between Russell Haley Adastra Productions, $25.00, ISBN 9780473203856 Little Sister Julian Novitz Vintage, $29.00, ISBN 9781869798246 The Intentions Book Gigi Fenster Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738233 The Spaces Between is Russell Haley’s eighth book…
Tagged with: Adastra Productions, Chris Else, Gigi Fenster, Issue 99, Julian Novitz, Russell Haley, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Downloaded, Chris Else
Chris Else discovers online shopping is no match for the bookshop browse. There are books bought and books borrowed; books stolen and books found; books that are gifts and books that are prizes; books that you read as soon as…
Why read? Chris Else
The Torchlight List Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780958291699 The world is going to hell in a handcart in so many ways that if you are over 55, you’re inclined to throw up your hands in despair, hide…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Chris Else, Issue 94, Jim Flynn, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Out of Africa, Chris Else
In the second of a two-part series, Chris Else examines the case for an evolutionary explanation of art argued in two recent books. Back in my university days I had a friend called Murray, a sardonic sort of bloke with…
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Poppy lopping and cultural cringing
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