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Jim Collinge: View from the front window
Education is Change: Twenty Viewpoints Harvey McQueen (ed.) Bridget Williams Books, $34.95 Over the past few months large numbers of Swedish bureaucrats, politicians and educators have been visiting us to observe our education system as it works through the massive…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Harvey McQueen, Issue 13, Jim Collinge, Winter I 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Nicholas Reid: Overturning arcadianism
Breath Becomes the Wind Simon Rae University of Otago Press, $39.95 Islands of the Dawn Robert S Ellwood University of Hawaii Press, $32.00 Permit me to remind you of two inane stereotypes, which lurk in the minds of secular liberals…
Tagged with: Issue 13, Nicholas Reid, Robert S Ellwood, Simon Rae, University of Hawaii Press, University of Otago Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
John Henderson: An optimistic view
Politics in New Zealand Richard Mulgan Auckland University Press, 1994, $34.95 The mid‑1990s is proving to be an exciting time for students of New Zealand politics. The change to the mixed‑member proportional (MMP) electoral system has in effect turned New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 13, John Henderson, Richard Mulgan, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Ian Duncan: Politics, the Budget and a business
Out of the Woods Reg Birchfield and lan Grant GP Publications, $34.95 The subject of restructuring and sale of state trading enterprises in New Zealand has attracted a number of writers from a variety of professional backgrounds. It is not…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Ian Duncan, Issue 13, lan Grant, Reg Birchfield, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Tom Brooking: A finely textured study
New Zealand’s Burning: The Settlers’ World In The Mid 1880s Rollo Arnold Victoria University Press, 1994, $34.95 Ask around the New Zealand historical profession who are the proven historians’ historians, that is, those whose research is consistently dependable and whose…
Tagged with: Issue 13, Rollo Arnold, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
J M Thomson: A most unlikely spy
Intersecting Lines: the Memoirs of Ian Milner Vincent O’Sullivan (ed) Victoria University Press, $29.95 When Joseph McCarthy emerged from what had hitherto been the sane and liberal State of Wisconsin the 1950s assumed the lurid appellation of his name. Junior…
Tagged with: Ian Milner, Issue 13, J M Thomson, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter I 1994
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Lauris Edmond: (Not) getting to know them
Christina Stead: A Biography Hazel Rowley Heinemann Australia, $A49.95 Riffs Dennis Lee Brick Books, Box 38 Station B, London Ontario Canada N6A 4V3 The only way for an Australian writer to make an impression in New Zealand is to come…
Tagged with: Brick Books, Christina Stead, Dennis Lee, Heinemann Australia, Issue 13, Lauris Edmond, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry
Iain Sharp: Beyond the pale
State Ward Alan Duff Random House, $17.95 I realise that almost everyone is bone-weary by now of the wrangling over the Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories and its shameful “Note on Absences”. All the same, I cannot resist…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Iain Sharp, Issue 13, Random House, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Janet Wilson: Distinctive depictions of childhood
Pomare Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, 1994, $19.95 What is it about Elizabeth Knox’s writing that divides readers into devotees or detractors, into those who do and those who don’t enjoy her work? Her first novel, After Z‑Hour (1987), which…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 13, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature