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Without guilt or apology, Harry Ricketts
Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life: New & Collected Writings Michael King Cape Catley, $34.95, ISBN 0908561881 “This is the sort of letter that doesn’t look well in a Biography,” Rupert Brooke wrote Eddie Marsh in September 1913.…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Harry Ricketts, Issue 52, Michael King, Summer 2002
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The limits of historiography, Jock Phillips
Pakeha Maori Trevor Bentley Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 0285540 7 Being Pakeha Now Michael King Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 028438 9 These two books share much – same price, same publisher, about the same length, and…
Tagged with: Issue 41, Jock Phillips, Michael King, Penguin Books, Trevor Bentley
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
“Better to tell it all”, Vincent O’Sullivan
Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame Michael King Viking, $49.95, ISBN 0 670 89371 4 Penguin Books knew they were onto what commerce knows as “a good thing” when they took on the publication they now…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Janet Frame, Michael King, Viking, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Mary, Marist, Catholic and Kiwis, Paul Morris
God‘s Farthest Outpost: A History of Catholics in New Zealand Michael King Viking, $49.95 ISBN 0 67087 652 6 Church in the World: Statements on Social issues 1979-1997 by New Zealand Catholic Bishops, compiled by Chris Orsman and Peter Zwart…
Tagged with: Catholic Office for Social Justice, Chris Orsman, Dunmore Press, Issue 33, Michael King, Paul Morris, Peter Donovan, Peter Zwart, Viking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion
Funnier, meaner Sargeson beyond this good Life, Vincent 0’Sullivan
Frank Sargeson: A Life Michael King Penguin, $49.95 hardback (paper to come) ISBN 0 670 83847 0 It is easy to appreciate the view that impartial biography ‑ if such a thing ever really exists ‑ is not likely to…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 21, Michael King, Penguin Books
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, 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
Autobiography through journalism, Rachel Lawson
Hidden Places: a memoir in journalism Michael King, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992, $27.95 Rachel Lawson reviews Michael King’s new book and discusses his work with him. Michael King has established his reputation through exploring what it means to be…
Tagged with: Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 6, Michael King, Rachel Lawson, Spring 1992
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Issues of shared identity, Peter Beatson
Pakeha: The Quest For Identity in New Zealand Michael King (ed), Penguin Books, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 I came to this book already blooded from a remarkably bad-tempered review by Maurice Shadbolt, in which he variously described the contributors as numb…
Tagged with: Issue 5, Michael King, Penguin Books, Peter Beatson, Winter 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology