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Issue 55 | October 2002
Volume 12 | Number 4 | Issue 55 | October 2002 Tim Hazledine: Jane Kelsey, At the Crossroads. Three Essays Editorial Letters “Imprints”: Peter Wells Jane Stafford: Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson, The Book of Iris: A Life of…
Tripping our light fantastic, Adrienne Simpson
Fantasy and Folly: the lost world of New Zealand musicals 1880-1940 Peter Harcourt Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228656 The dearth of published research on the history of entertainment in New Zealand would be reason enough to welcome the late Peter…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, Issue 55, Peter Harcourt, Spring 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Kissing and telling, Chris Else
Within the Kiss Charlotte Randall Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0141006382 When I was young and stupid, I used to believe that reading a novel meant that you had to try to understand what the author wanted to say. If the writing…
Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, Chris Else, Issue 55, Penguin, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 55
Enemies of promise “Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.” That was Cyril Connolly in 1938, warning of the dangers threatening writers of the time. More specifically, in his ground-breaking part-memoir, part-critical volume Enemies of Promise,…
Missing Iris, Jane Stafford
The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402677 Often the genesis of a biography is as interesting as the work itself. Robin Hyde died in 1939 in London…
Tagged with: Derek Challis, Gloria Rawlinson, Issue 55, Jane Stafford, Robin Hyde, Spring 2001
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 55
Removing distinctions of race Richard Hill’s review “Beyond Treaty illiteracy” (August 2002 issue) purports to emphasise the crucial importance of language as a means of communication. Who disagrees? Unfortunately, his review is bizarrely unreadable. He opens with a few general…
World-class in Timaru, Mark Williams
Chemistry Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734271 In a 1913 guide book, Forest and Ice, Blanche Baughan describes the Franz Josef glacier: “the grandeur of great, ordained descent, embodied here in a white stairway of the gods, magnificently…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 55, Mark Williams, Spring 2001, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A better class of hoon, Mark Broatch
Stonedogs Craig Marriner Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414764 I donned my beanie before writing this review. It seemed only fitting. Part of the challenge of this book is its subject matter: drunken, stoned hoons, racing around the country in an…
Tagged with: Craig Marriner, Issue 55, Mark Broatch, Random House, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review