Volume 12 | Number 4 | Issue 55 | October 2002 Tim Hazledine: Jane Kelsey, At the Crossroads. Three Essays Editorial Letters “Imprints”: Peter Wells Jane Stafford: Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson, The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin…
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Missing Iris, Jane Stafford
The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402677 Often the genesis of a biography is as interesting as the work itself. Robin Hyde died in 1939 in London…
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Tagged with: Derek Challis, Gloria Rawlinson, Issue 55, Jane Stafford, Robin Hyde, Spring 2001
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 55
World-class in Timaru, Mark Williams
Chemistry Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734271 In a 1913 guide book, Forest and Ice, Blanche Baughan describes the Franz Josef glacier: “the grandeur of great, ordained descent, embodied here in a white stairway of the gods, magnificently…
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Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 55, Mark Williams, Spring 2001, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A better class of hoon, Mark Broatch
Stonedogs Craig Marriner Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414764 I donned my beanie before writing this review. It seemed only fitting. Part of the challenge of this book is its subject matter: drunken, stoned hoons, racing around the country in an…
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Tagged with: Craig Marriner, Issue 55, Mark Broatch, Random House, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Ikey” and I, Paul Morris
At the Edge of Memory: A Family Story Michael King Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018159 In his new book, Michael King revisits his Kiwi Irish Catholic background, focusing on his experiences of anti-semitism. Nuns explained that God had withdrawn His blessing…
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Tagged with: Issue 55, Michael King, Paul Morris, Penguin, Spring 2001
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Cilla McQueen
The missing alternative, Tim Hazledine
At The Crossroads: Three Essays Jane Kelsey Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242918 Re-launching his New Left Review for the new millennium, the veteran British socialist Perry Anderson conceded with apparent equanimity that “the only starting point for a realistic…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 55, Jane Kelsey, Spring 2001, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The trouble with Harry, Catherine Hill
Tomorrow Tastes Better Russell Haley HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503910 The English Harem Anthony McCarten Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414640 What exactly is a comic novel? The question arises because comedy is the common feature of Tomorrow Tastes Better and The…
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Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Catherine Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 55, Random House, Russell Haley, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review