Blog Archives

Issue 96 | Summer 2011

  Volume 21 | Number 4 | Issue 96 | Summer 2011 Editorial “Many happy returns!” Letters Brian Turner: “Beachfront” (poem) “Bovver boys” (what they wrote) C K Stead: Risk (work in progress) Jolisa Gracewood: “A little close reading” (comment)…
Tagged with: ,
Posted in Contents

Editorial – Issue 96

Many Happy Returns! We’re delighted to be writing the editorial for this 20th anniversary issue of New Zealand Books. It contains the usual excellent reviews, but also new poetry and prose, and reflections from leading writers and those in the…
Tagged with: , , ,
Posted in Editorial

Poem – Brian Turner

Beachfront   So much advice coming your way like wind-blown leaves. ‘Never give up until you see indifference,’ one says; another, a woman recently split from her husband ‘for no good reason’, tells you ‘few women ignore persistence, so keep it…
Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Poem

Bovver boys

What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years   On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…
Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Comment

Risk, C K Stead

An extract from C K Stead’s new novel. It was in December that Tom Roland was at home standing in front of the television set thinking about travel. The memory of a poem had set him off on this track.…
Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Extract, Fiction, Literature

A little close reading, Jolisa Gracewood

Jolisa Gracewood interrogates the reviewer within.   “Why do I write?” the great George Orwell asked himself, and produced a typically brisk, self-lacerating answer with roots deep in his miserable childhood. Apologies to young Eric, but my “Why I review”…
Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Comment

Determining rangatiratanga, Filma Anne Phillips

Maori and the State: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000 Richard S Hill Victoria University Press, $92.99, ISBN 9780864736116   Aotearoa/New Zealand 1950-2000 now seems like a foreign country. Of course it isn’t an unfamiliar country, in part because the…
Tagged with: , , , , ,
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review

Temporal blather, Iain Sharp

Iain Sharp raises an eyebrow at the ghosts of reviewers past. Thanks to the National Library’s splendid Papers Past website, forgotten follies are now at our fingertips. In June and early July 1909, for example, every edition of the Ashburton…
Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Comment

As we were, Barry Gustafson

The Politics of Equality: New Zealand’s Adventures in Democracy Leslie Lipson Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736468   Leslie Lipson, an Englishman, became foundation Professor of Political Science at Victoria University College of the University of New Zealand in 1939.…
Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Late songs, Roger Robinson

The Trouble with Fire Fiona Kidman Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869793593   A woman approaching her 50th wedding anniversary flies from Auckland to meet her aid-volunteer husband in Bangkok, and they fly on to Hanoi, where he becomes seriously ill with…
Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories
Search the archive
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Filter by Categories
Architecture
Art
Autobiography
Awards
Biography
Byline
Children
Comment
Contents
ebooks
Economics
Editorial
Education
Essays
Extract
Fiction
Gender
Graphic novel
Health
History
Imprints
Language
Lecture
Letters
Letters
Literature
Māori
Media
Memoir
Music
Natural History
Non-fiction
Obituaries
Opinion
Pacific
Photography
Plays
Poem
Poetry
Politics & Law
Psychology
Religion
Review
Science
Short stories
Sociology
Sport
War
YA Reviewers
Young adults
Recent issues: subscriber-only access

    Subscribe to NZ Books to access the issues above

    Search by category