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Self-help or help yourself, Alice Te Punga Somerville & Tony Simpson
Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It’s Our Treaty Too Patrick Snedden Random House, $27.95, ISBN 186941683X I read Snedden’s Pakeha and the Treaty while diligently chomping my way through two books from a distinctly different genre: No More Clutter! and…
Tagged with: Alice Te Punga Somerville, Issue 71, Patrick Snedden, Random House, Spring 2005, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Not in Guatemala now, Linda Burgess
Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama Trish Dunleavy Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869403398 If Ourselves in Primetime were television, rather than a book about television, it would be tucked away on TV1 at 11.30pm. Or…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Linda Burgess, Spring 2005, Trish Dunleavy
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Erratic humanity, Roger Blackley
Nerli: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $79.99, ISBN I869403355 According to the traditional mythology of New Zealand art, the annus mirabilis of 1890 heralds the arrival of professionalism and modernism in the figures…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Michael Dunn, Roger Blackley, Spring 2005
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
History, processes and principles, Bronwyn Dalley
The Waitangi Tribunal/Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi ed Janine Hayward and Nicola R Wheen Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242322 State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900–1950 Richard S Hill Victoria University Press, $39.95,…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 71, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Living testaments, Susan Fowke
Skin to Skin: Intimate, True Stories of Maori-Pakeha Relationships Carol Archie Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019627 If you feel like reading something positive about race relations in New Zealand, this is the book for you. And if, like me, you are…
Poem — Bernard Gadd
Another creative prelude [with thanks to R A K Mason] This plump cheque award provides fittingly screen bed and board for stanzas on me They ask no grim Ron Mason verses look what’s happened to him dwindling past curses I…
Letters — Issue 71
Going for the kill There are curious contradictions in Guy Somerset’s editorial, “Review and be damned” (NZB, October 2005). Literary life in New Zealand apparently amounts to “rarefied navel-gazing”, supermarket politeness and authorial complaint, all dire “small-country” traits. Yet these…
Slow readers, Tim Hazledine
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