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What’s on the menu, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Songs from the Violet Café Fiona Kidman Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414055 In his 1984 essay “Reflections on Exile”, Edward Said remarks: Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 63, Random House, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Spring 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Local and special, Stuart Murray
Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932-1945 Lawrence Jones Victoria University Press, $49.94, ISBN 0864734557 Nationalism, and especially cultural nationalism, inhabits a position in contemporary culture that seems peculiarly complex. Easy to identify, yet…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Lawrence Jones, Spring 2003, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Family gatherings, Isa Moynihan
Lily’s Cupola Bronwyn Tate University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276596 Bloom Kelly Ana Morey Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018922 Joybird Rosemary Wildblood David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0998990901 The three-generation novel has always been popular with women writers. Besides Lily’s Cupola,…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Tate, David Ling Publishing, Isa Moynihan, Issue 63, Kelly Ana Morey, Otago University Press, Penguin, Rosemary Wildblood, Spring 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letting go, Stephanie de Montalk
I was making coffee, gazing into what I like to think is the eastern ambience of the trelliswork, diamond paving, corner grotto and leaves in the garden courtyard next door, going through my writer’s routine, when my husband said, “You…
The body beautiful, Rosemary McLeod
Leisure and Pleasure: Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960 Caroline Daley Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 186940291X Undressed: New Zealand fashion designers tell their stories Stacy Gregg Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 014301899X It may be only recently that firemen…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Issue 63, Penguin, Rosemary McLeod, Spring 2003, Stacy Gregg
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The theatre of life, Susan Budd
Iridescence Peter Wells Random House, $34.95, ISBN 1869415833 With its gorgeously frilled and furbelowed Victorian crinolines, melodrama and high camp, Iridescence is strongly reminiscent of Peter Wells’s screenplay for Desperate Remedies, which blew the mandatory bucolic naturalism of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Peter Wells, Random House, Spring 2003, Susan Budd
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Telling it like it is, Brent Southgate
I am an Insect Simon Pollard Reed, $19.95, ISBN 1869487400 The Life-size Guide to New Zealand Wildflowers Andrew Crowe Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0143018477 Pick Up a Pack: a guide to tramping and camping the New Zealand way Keith Olsen Reed,…
Tagged with: Andrew Crowe, Brent Southgate, Issue 63, Janet Hunt, Keith Olsen, Mark Inglis, Penguin, Random House, Reed, Simon Pollard, Spring 2003
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Outside the shadow, Kim Worthington
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