Blog Archives
Pragmatists with principles, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Undeveloping Nation: New Zealand’s Twenty Year Fall Towards the Third World David McLoughlin, Penguin, $24.95 The Decent Society: Essays In Response to National’s Economic and Social Policies Jonathan Boston and Paul Dalziel (eds) Oxford University Press, $29.95 Controlling Interests: Business,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David McLoughlin, Graham Oddie, Issue 7, John Decks, Nick Perry, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Roy Perrett, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Summer 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Be a festival, Keri Hulme
The Shark that Ate the Sun (Ko a Mago ne Kal a fa) John Puhiatau Pule, Penguin Books, $24.95 Can you adequately review a 294-page book – which is rich, allusive, poetic, partly epistolary, partly story‑chants from last century, partly…
Tagged with: Issue 7, John Puhiatau Pule, Keri Hulme, Penguin Books, Summer 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Dinosaurs, doctors and daredevils, Dale Williams
Valley of the Dinosaurs: The Story of New Zealand’s Dinosaur Woman Joan Wiffen, Random Century, $19.95 (128 pp) When Joan Wiffen’s husband Pont became too ill to attend his geology night classes, this Hawke’s Bay housewife went in his place…
Tagged with: Cobber Kain, Dale Williams, Issue 7, Joan Wiffen, John McIndoe, Michael Burns, Neil Begg, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Letters — Issue 7
Who loses? Dear Madam Editor, If what you say in your September Editorial about John Thomson is true, you ought to have fallen over backwards to retain his services. If what you say is untrue, you ought not to have…
Travelling through time, Nelson Wattie
The New Zealanders: A Story of Austral Lands J S C Dumont-d’Urville, transl Carol Legge, Victoria University Press, $39.95 From the excellent translations of Olive Wright, even readers who prefer to avoid the pitfalls of French grammar already know that…
Tagged with: Carol Legge, Issue 7, J S C Dumont-d'Urville, Nelson Wattie, Summer 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Don’t expect the head, George Griffiths
A People’s History: Illustrated Biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume One, 1769-1869, W H Oliver (ed), Bridget Williams Books/ Department of Internal Affairs, $39.95 Taken alone, this collection of biographical essays can be summed up quickly. Wellwritten,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Department of Internal Affairs, George Griffiths, Issue 7, Summer 1992, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
Writers speak more than they know, Jane Hurley
In the Same Room: Conversations with New Zealand Writers Elizabeth Alley and Mark Williams (eds), Auckland University Press, $29.95 Writers on Writing: An Anthology Robert Neale (ed), Oxford University Press, $39.95 In In the Same Room, Vincent O’Sullivan approvingly quotes…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Alley, Issue 7, Jane Hurley, Mark Williams, Oxford University Press, Robert Neale, Summer 1992
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
When people lose hope they die, Ann Beaglehole
By the Moon and the Stars Eva Hayman, Random Century, $24.95 Krystyna’s Story Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 When there is nothing left, what stops people huddling in a corner, not doing the things necessary for survival? Where does…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Bridget Williams Books, Eva Hayman, Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Issue 7, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial — Issue 7
Andrew Mason: The challenge continues You may have been expecting to read this December issue of New Zealand Books in A4 format and on lighter-weight paper – and certainly, after the ‘Notice to Readers’ announcing these and other changes in…