The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736543 Theology no longer forms part of a university education in the social sciences or humanities, where…
The Occupiers: New Zealand Veterans Remember Post-war Japan Alison Parr Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143567240 In Love and War: Kiwi Soldiers’ Romantic Encounters in Wartime Italy Susan Jacobs Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567554 I detoured into these two books while…
The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction Doreen D’Cruz and John C Ross Rodopi, €85.00, ISBN 9789042034747 Loneliness holds a special place in New Zealand literature. If there is a single image that casts…
Other People’s Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $45.00, ISBN 9781877517693 About a year ago, shortly after this book was published, I heard Nicky Hager in an interview deploring the…
Matters of form, Julia Marshall
Julia Marshall of Gecko Press wonders about the future of the book as artefact. Recently, Frances, in charge of Gecko Press accounts, went to get her daily coffee at The Jimmy in Wellington and was asked where she worked. On her…
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