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Issue 34 | August 1998
Volume 8 | Number 3 | Issue 34 | August 1998 Lauris Edmond homes in on Michael Jackson’s twin lives: Michael Jackson, The Blind Impress Bill Sewell: Burns Fellowship 40th anniversary reunion, 22 May 1998 (comment) Laurence Jenkins: Jeff…
Putting the New Right right, Joe Wallis
In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy Brian Easton Otago University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1 87713308 6 Brian Easton’s account of New Zealand’s post-war economic performance has already received some mixed reviews. In view of the generally critical stance…
Tagged with: Brian Easton, Issue 34, Joe Wallis, Otago University Press
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law
Letters – Issue 34
Syllables and stresses In his review of my revised edition of Ursula Bothell: Collected Poems in the March 1998 issue of New Zealand Books, Hugh Roberts writes: In the extended discussion of Bethell’s debt to Hopkins, … O’Sullivan asserts that…
Double life, Lauris Edmond
The Blind Impress Michael Jackson Dunmore Press $29.95 ISBN 0 8646307 9 Supposing that one of a reviewers tasks is to interpret, I begin by imagining how a reader will first encounter The Blind Impress in a bookshop. The cover…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 34, Lauris Edmond, Michael Jackson
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Second time around, Elizabeth Webby
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (2nd edition) Terry Sturm (ed) Oxford University Press, $89.95 ISBN 0 19558385 X That a second edition of this substantial reference-work has been required less than a decade after it was…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Webby, Issue 34, Oxford University Press, Terry Sturm
Posted in History, Literature
Posted in History, Literature
What do you think of New Zealand? Lloyd James
The Hard Light Stuart Hoar Penguin, $29.95 ISBN 0 14027505 3 Live Bodies Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95 ISBN 0 140273808 4 Burn my head in Heaven John Pule Penguin, $24.95 ISBN 0 14027374 3 Last year I read Drowning, a…
Tagged with: Issue 34, John Pule, Lloyd Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Stuart Hoar
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Roots for fruits, Laurence Jenkins
Sucking Feijoas Jeff Buchanan Tandem Press, $24.95 ISBN 187717824 1 Wilde’s “love that dare not speak its name” now declaims lustily from the rooftops, but which name? For men, as if homosexual weren’t confusing enough with its origins in both…
Tagged with: Issue 34, Jeff Buchanan, Laurence Jenkin, Tandem Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Half-baked and home-cooked, Jane Westaway
having words with you Sarah Quigley Penguin Books, $24.95 ISBN 0 14027376 X In a fishbone church Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 86473335 6 You can’t consider two first books by young women writers without being reminded…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Issue 34, Jane Westaway, Sarah Quigley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Only kidding, Julie Eberly
Hark William Taylor Scholastic, $11.95 ISBN 1 86943 397 1 Uncle Trev’s Teeth Jack Lasenby Cape Catley, $24.95 ISBN 0 90856166 0 Bad grammar and quickly dated vernacular are the most significant problems in William Taylor’s use of a first…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 34, Jack Lasenby, Julie Eberly, Scholastic, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review