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Non-fiction Children of Rogernomics: A Neoliberal Generation Leaves School, Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins and Judith Sligo, Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578182 A four-year study of 93 young people reaching adulthood in the wake of Rogernomics. What they have to…
Captaining your soul, David Hill
The Ant and the Ferrari Kerry Spackman HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 9781869509590 Fate and Philosophy Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9781877551321 Half a century ago, C P Snow famously fulminated in The Two Cultures against arty-farty types condescending to physicists…
Tagged with: Awa Press, David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 100, Jim Flynn, Kerry Spackman, Summer 2012
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Hedging digital bets, Donald Kerr
Donald Kerr, head of Special Collections at the University of Otago library, assesses the survival of such collections in the digital age. Throughout the country, there are many institutions that contain a diverse range of collections, each containing a myriad…
Curiosa and curiosa, Dale Williams
The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551130 Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517686 The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Gill, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Dale Williams, Debbie Cowens, Friedrich Krull, Issue 100, Katherine Mansfield, Matt Cowens, Summer 2012
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
What we make of it, Penelope Todd
E-publisher Penelope Todd foresees a complementary future for print and digital. When an invention appears that radically threatens our comfortable habits and suppositions, our instinct is to clutch at the old and mistrust the new. We like our books: the…
Tickling the ivories, Edmund Bohan
Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand Kirstine Moffat Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 978187737797 What a welcome book this is. Music has been neglected shamefully for far too long in our historiography, either because most of our…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 100, Kirstine Moffat, Otago University Press, Summer 2012
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Green thoughts in green shades, Hugh Roberts
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Geoff Cochrane, Hugh Roberts, Issue 100, James Brown, Otago University Press, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
I will do my best to be helpful, Ann Mallinson
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