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A slimming diet, Rose Lovell-Smith
Scarface and the Angel William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135445 Afterwards David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 090878354X Twenty-Four Hours Margaret Mahy Collins, $16.95, ISBN 0007113722 Leon Frances Cherry Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0908783582 Here’s a batch of four…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Collins, David Hill, Frances Cherry, Issue 49, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, Rose Lovell-Smith, William Taylor
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Way down South, Peter Beck
A Wise Adventure: New Zealand and Antarctica 1920-1960 Malcolm Templeton Victoria University Press, with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Wellington, $39.95, ISBN 0864734034 Antarctica is often presented as “a pole apart” because of its peripheral location, geographical isolation,…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Malcolm Templeton, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Peter Beck, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Beyond shock, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Room Laurence Fearnley Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864733909 Dr Amelia Walsh is an abortionist and the room of the title is her consulting room. A succession of women sit in her patient’s chair and respond in various ways to…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Laurence Fearnley, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
A meeting in Barcelona For Louis Johnson (1924 – 1988) I glimpsed your ghost today, disguised as a tourist, visiting Picasso’s favourite brothel. The one where he painted those cubist nudes with their stranglers’ hands and fetishist faces. Ugly…
From sclerosis to stagnation, Brian Easton
Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Communities Shaun Goldfinch Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864733933 Shaun Goldfinch’s Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy is the latest version of what is becoming the standard account…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Brian Easton, Issue 49, Shaun Goldfinch, Victoria University Press
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Letters – Issue 49
Not letting the facts interfere Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s review of Southern Capital was the most spiteful, vindictive and unprofessional review I have seen for a very long time. We learn that Eldred-Grigg actively dislikes the University of Canterbury’s History Department, and…
“Life in one’s mouth”, Peter Bland
Louis Johnson: Selected Poems ed Terry Sturm Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473350X There’s a short poem by Louis Johnson which I’ve always admired. It’s called “Intemperance” and it tells us a lot in a very short space, both about…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Peter Bland, Terry Sturm, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Keyboard practice, C K Stead
C K Stead takes a new look at Janet Frame’s The Pocket Mirror. Janet Frame’s The Pocket Mirror (published by Braziller in New York in 1967 and here by Pegasus in 1968) has the appearance, not of a nervous first…
The federation game, Colin James
Waltzing with Matilda: Should New Zealand join Australia? Bob Catley Dark Horse Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0958214611 A chilling graph presented to Auckland business leaders on 14 May undermines Bob Catley’s thesis. Auckland, the graph showed, lost 3.4% in GDP per…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Bob Catley, Colin James, Dark Horse Publishing, Issue 49
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Elsie Locke, Hugh Laracy
Posted in Comment