Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye In his own words with Roger Horrocks Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927249215 Back in 1965, aged 26, I walked into the Howard Wise Gallery in New York and saw the best kinetic…
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Fizz with zip, Wystan Curnow
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Issue 113, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Before and after, Christina Stachurski
Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past Alison Parr Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 9780143573371 A Villa at the End of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City Fiona Farrell Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9781775537519 King Rich Joe Bennett HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN…
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Tagged with: Alison Parr, Autumn 2016, Christina Stachurski, Fiona Farrell, HarperCollins, Issue 113, Joe Bennett, Penguin, Vintage
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
State-of-the-education-nation, Elizabeth Crayford
The Rhetoric and the Reality: New Zealand Schools and Schooling in the 21st Century David Hood Fraser Books, $39.50, ISBN 9780992247638 David Hood has written a thorough, detailed and impassioned plea for major changes to our education system. He calls…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2016, David Hood, Elizabeth Crayford, Fraser Books, Issue 113
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, 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…
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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
Driving home, Ann Beaglehole
Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers tell their Stories Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant (Michael Hall photographer) Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781927277331 In Adrienne Jansen’s 1990 book I Have in My Arms Both Ways, 10 immigrant women told their…
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Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 113, Liz Grant, Michael Hall
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The archaeologist of memory, Ingrid Horrocks
The Dreaming Land Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780908321490 The Dreaming Land is Martin Edmond’s first full-length work of autobiography, but he’s been working in the territory of life writing and memoir for a long time. He is…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 113, Martin Edmond
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
“A most entertaining little man”, Chris Szekely
Hocken: Prince of Collectors Donald Jackson Kerr Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877578 663 Dry bread and milk for breakfast. Dry bread and milk for supper. Not much chop for a boy of eight at Woodhouse Grove in 1844, but that…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Chris Szekely, Donald Jackson Kerr, Issue 113, Otago University Press, Thomas Morland Hocken
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The thing-ness of history, Cherie Lacey
The Lives of Colonial Objects Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds) Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781927322024 The Lives of Colonial Objects seeks to tell the history, or rather a number of histories, of New Zealand’s colonial past…
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Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Annabel Cooper, Autumn 2016, Cherie Lacey, Issue 113, Lachy Paterson, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Making the pieces fit, Kathryn Carmody
Kathryn Carmody, New Zealand Festival Writers Week programme manager, looks back, and ahead to the 2016 programme, 8-13 March. It’s a funny old job this one. There’ve been five managers on the literature programme since the inaugural festival in 1986.…
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