The Departure Lounge: Travel and Literature in the Post-Modern World John Needham Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 198 0 Like most products of the human mind, theory is a double-edged instrument. On the one hand, and positively, it…
Besides Myself Russell Haley Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Night at the Embassy Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, 1990, $24.95 Newlands Gary Langford Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Like a lot of middle-aged men, Midge, the out-of-work hero-narrator of Russell Haley’s latest novel,…