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Ducking for cover, Christine Johnston
The Elusive Language of Ducks Judith White Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9781775532798 Judith White’s themes are the big ones – old-age, decline and death; sex, love and the betrayal of love. Her characters have an inner life but they also…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 103, Judith White, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Browsing, squawking and squabbling, Janet Hunt
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird Quinn Berentson Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517846 It’s only 10 years since Richard Wolfe’s paperback Moa: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird (2003) hit the…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 103, Janet Hunt, Quinn Berentson, Spring 2013
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A taste of the salt, Anne French
How to Sail a Boat Matt Vance Awa Press, $26.00, ISBN 9781877551857 “We were about five hundred miles off the coast of California … .” That’s how Mid’s best stories start. I haven’t seen him for years now, but I…
Tagged with: Anne French, Awa Press, Issue 103, Matt Vance, Spring 2013
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Poem – Jennifer Compton
Anxieties Our classroom in the school up on the jagged hill was often buffeted every whichway by the southerly and then the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The creek cooling our soft drink on strings stole one bottle…
Auckland’s newspaper wars, Grant Hannis
Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News David Hastings Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407384 Histories of New Zealand newspapers are usually boring. I’m sure anyone who’s tried to read Guy Scholefield’s 1958 history of New Zealand newspapers has…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, Grant Hannis, Issue 103, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Bending over backwards, Nicky Hager
Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics and the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987 Gerald Hensley Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407414 Gerald Hensley is an intelligent man, a good researcher and a pleasing and witty writer. Friendly Fire is his third book, and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Gerald Hensley, Issue 103, Nicky Hager, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A pleasing oddness, Dougal McNeill
Letters of Frank Sargeson Sarah Shieff (ed) Vintage, $50.00, ISBN 9781869793333 Karatani Kojin, announcing the “end of modern Japanese literature” in 2004, caused some alarm amongst readers, despite Japan’s (for us, and comparatively) philosophically open-minded and expansive literary culture. Weren’t…
Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Issue 103, Sarah Shieff, Spring 2013, Vintage
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
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