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Women past and present, Kim Worthington
Women Equality Power: Helen Clark: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership Allen and Unwin, $45.00, ISBN 9781988547053 Women Now: The Legacy of Female Suffrage Bronwyn Labrum (ed) Te Papa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994146007 If there was ever a year…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Bronwyn Labrum, Helen Clark, Issue 126, Kim Worthington, Te Papa Press, Winter 2019
Posted in Essays, Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Plotting outside the rules, Kim Worthington
The Bright Side of my Condition Charlotte Randall Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143570660 Charlotte Randall’s many strengths don’t, in general, extend to the provision of compelling plots. Tellingly, in an interview, she states, “I don’t really believe in ‘stories’ ”, and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Charlotte Randall, Issue 105, Kim Worthington, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Framing herself, Kim Worthington
Towards Another Summer Janet Frame Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 1869418689 In the months leading up to last year’s posthumous release of Towards Another Summer, a novel written almost 45 years earlier, we learned only that Janet Frame deemed it “too embarrassingly…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Janet Frame, Kim Worthington, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Domesticating Derrida, Kim Worthington
Derrida Downunder ed Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864693745 Jacques Derrida’s visit to New Zealand, for the Derrida Downunder Conference organised by Auckland University in 1999, was certainly an event worthy of commemoration in print. This…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Heather Worth, Issue 52, Jacques Derrida, Kim Worthington, Laurence Simmons, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Seeing through words, Kim Worthington
The Inhabited Initial Fiona Farrell Auckland University Press, $27.95, ISBN 1 86940 215 4 as far as I can see Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 217 0 The Inhabited Initial, Fiona Farrell’s second collection of poetry…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Fiona Farrell, Issue 43, Kim Worthington, Michele Leggott
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Mixing memory and desire, Kim Worthington
Dismemberment Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 207 3 Reconnaissance Kapka Kassabova Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 028343 0 Marked as a new talent to watch, Kapka Kassabova has received extensive media attention in the past two…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 39, Kapka Kassabova, Kim Worthington, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
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Outside the shadow, Kim Worthington
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