Dear Editor I am sorry that Roger Hall was upset by a review of Maurice Gee’s Going West which let the cat out of the bag, but pleased, for him, that he had already read the book and was not…
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Punditry and punchups: Writers and Readers Week at the Wellington Festival, Jane Stafford
Editorial – Issue 12
Noticeboard, March 1994: Mahy Lecture award
Issue 12 | March 1994
Right up there with Frame and McCahon, John Roberts
Jane Campion (dir), The Piano At irregular, generally long, intervals, works of great force emerge from the ruck of creative aspiration. They mark a new manifestation of the power inherent in different forms of art. They challenge comfortable assumptions…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Colin McCahon, Issue 12, Jane Campion, Janet Frame, John Roberts
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Objects that look like books, Brian Easton
Performance Without Profit: The Voluntary Welfare Sector in New Zealand Gary Hawke and David Robinson (eds), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 Women and Taxation Claudia Scott (ed), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 From Birth to Death III Judith Davey, Institute…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Brian Easton, Claudia Scott, David Robinson, Gary Hawke, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 12, Judith Davey
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Apology to C K Stead
C K Stead has taken exception to two aspects of a review of The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories in our issue of March 1994. If Roger Robinson’s review gave readers the impression that the absence of four…
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