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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
Downtown voices and sugar-rush diction, David Cohen
The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016 Nicola Legat (ed) Massey University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780994130068 Tell You What 2017: Great New Zealand Nonfiction Susanna Andrew and Jolisa Gracewood (eds) Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781869408602 If I had to name…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2017, David Cohen, Issue 117, Jolisa Gracewood, Massey University Press, Nicola Legat, Susanna Andrew
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Looking for home, David Cohen
Barefoot Years Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9781927277676 On Coming Home Paula Morris Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321117 Somewhere in the course of his perceptive career, in what one assumes was a more or less idle moment,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 111, Martin Edmond, Paula Morris, Spring 2015
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, 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: Auckland University Press, David Cohen, Issue 110, Jolisa Gracewood, Mākaro Press, Paul Morris, Susanna Andrew, Winter 2015
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
No drive-by answers, David Cohen
Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 John C Weaver Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9781927277232 All of us seek happiness, Pascal declared centuries ago, even at the point of a warm gun. “This is without exception,”…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 108, John C Weaver, Summer 2014
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Cracking up, David Cohen
Taming the Tiger: A Personal Encounter with Manic Depression Michael Morrissey Polygraphia, $39.00, ISBN 9781877332968 Sing No Sad Songs Sandra Arnold Canterbury University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927145067 Michael Morrissey’s account of his long encounter with mental affliction begins…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Cohen, Issue 98, Michael Morrissey, Polygraphia, Sandra Arnold, Winter 2012
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Boys will be … David Hill
Little Criminals: The Story of a New Zealand Boys’ Home David Cohen Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869790325 Our attitudes towards the welfare of our children seem to lurch between outrage and indifference. When a child is grossly abused or…
Tagged with: David Cohen, David Hill, Issue 95, Random House, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Differently wired, Harvey Molloy and Latika Vasil
A Perfect World: A Father’s Quest to Unriddle the Mysteries of Autism David Cohen Random House, $34.95, ISBN 9781869418151 As New Zealanders, we like to pride ourselves that we live in a caring egalitarian society with decent, though imperfect, health…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Harvey Molloy, Issue 82, Latika Vasil, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…
Tagged with: David Cohen, David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Harvey Molloy, Issue 68, June 2005, Steele Roberts
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review