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Issue 107 | Spring 2014
Volume 24 | Number 3 | Issue 107 | Spring 2014 Letters Jack Vowles: John Roughan, John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister Bernard Carpinter: Paul Cleave, Joe Victim; Ben Atkins, Drowning City Gyles Beckford: Maire Leadbetter, Peace, Power and…
Letters – Issue 107
Audio-books Each quarter or so a CD bearing the latest edition of New Zealand Books arrives in my letterbox having been sent by the Blind Foundation. These CDs carry excerpts from current magazine titles as requested by the recipient. NZB…
Development journalism, Alex Perrottet
Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific David Robie Little Island Press ISBN 9781877484254 It’s easy to read a book written by a journalist, especially if it covers wars, environmental disasters, independence struggles, and…
Tagged with: Alex Perrottet, David Robie, Issue 107, Little Island Press, Spring 2014
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Making up New Zealand, Geoff Watson
Encounters: The Creation of New Zealand. A History Paul Moon Penguin Books ISBN 9780143568506 The Voyagers: Remarkable European Explorations of New Zealand Paul Moon Penguin Books ISBN 9780143570554 In a year in which the historical focus is very much on…
Tagged with: Geoff Watson, Issue 107, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Spring 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Delivery suite, Rae Varcoe
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital Linda Bryder Auckland University Press ISBN 9781869408091 Many readers will be familiar with the furore which arose when Linda Bryder‘s A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital (2009) concluded…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 107, Linda Bryder, Rae Varcoe, Spring 2014
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The museum as a book, Tim Walker
Take These With You When You Leave: Treasures of the Archive Georgina White MTG Hawke’s Bay ISBN 9780992259600 Architecture of the Heart Lucy Hammonds and Douglas Lloyd Jenkins MTG Hawke’s Bay ISBN 9780992259624 Ūkaipō – ō tātou whakapapa: The Identity…
Tagged with: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Georgina White, Issue 107, Lucy Hammonds, Migoto Eria, MTG Hawke’s Bay, Spring 2014, Tim Walker
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
An act of restoration, Stella Ramage
Moments in Time: Ralph Miller – Artist Brian Miller Lifelogs Ltd ISBN 9780992245702 Ralph Miller occupies a small, forgotten corner of our art history. A sign-writer and designer by trade, Miller nurtured a private artistic career that was sadly cut…
Tagged with: Brian Miller, Issue 107, Lifelogs Ltd, Spring 2014, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Chasing the news, Emma Jolliff
News Pigs Tim Wilson Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739179 “To be a News Pig, one must be angry!” shouts Tom Milde’s cameraman, Valois Plongeur. In fact, he’s not a News Pig; Milde’s a writer of poetry and Think Pieces with…
Tagged with: Emma Jolliff, Issue 107, Spring 2014, Tim Wilson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bright satins, razor-encrusted leathers, Nick Bollinger
Glam Rock Boyfriends, An Imaginary Memoir Raewyn Alexander Brightspark Books ISBN 9780473266646 For many years, the rock musician in New Zealand was viewed as an outsider: a long-haired, strangely-clothed, promiscuous, drug-taking menace. But somewhere along the line, the conventional citizen…
Tagged with: Brightspark Books, Issue 107, Nick Bollinger, Raewyn Alexander, Spring 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Mentors and protégés, Margot Schwass
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