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Dancing with facts

Posted on September 11, 2018 by NZ Books

Broadcaster and documentary maker Justin Gregory reflects on James McNeish’s “portrait” of John Mulgan. In 1994, James McNeish wrote, narrated and produced a feature-length radio programme on a man he described as perhaps the “darkest” of New Zealand’s “dark horses”:…

Tagged with: Issue 123, James McNeish, John Mulgan, Justin Gregory, Spring 2018
Posted in Comment

Torn up and homesick, Joanne Drayton

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books

A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736932 Journey to Oxford John Mulgan (Peter Whiteford ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738196 The end of John Mulgan’s life in Cairo,…

Tagged with: Issue 99, Joanne Drayton, John Mulgan, Peter Whiteford, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review

In plain sight, Martin Edmond

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Report on Experience: John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736192 In Keats’s last letter, sent from Rome to his friend Charles Brown in England three months before he died, he writes of his “habitual feeling…

Tagged with: Issue 92, John Mulgan, Martin Edmond, Peter Whiteford, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

Behind the grin, Harry Ricketts

Posted on March 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $49.95, 014301871X He grins out from the front cover of Vincent O’Sullivan’s engrossing biography Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan. It’s that famous…

Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Harry Ricketts, Issue 65, John Mulgan, Penguin, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review