Live from the Battlefield Peter Arnett Hodder & Stoughton, $49.95 Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Australia and Fleet Street were the beacons for every New Zealand journalist without a house full of kids or one of those painfully faithful…
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An inflated importance, John McBeth
Tagged with: Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 14, John McBeth, Peter Arnett, Winter 1994
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, War
An important work, Peter Tremewan
Te Wai Pounamu, The Greenstone lsland: A History of the Southern Maori during the European Colonisation of New Zealand Harry C Evison Aoraki Press (in association with Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board and Te Runanganui o Tahu), $58.95 A reading…
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Tagged with: Aoraki Press, Harry C Evison, Issue 14, Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board, Peter Tremewan, Te Runanganui o Tahu, Winter 1994
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Puzzling over the best way to tell it, Kendrick Smithyman
The Singing Whakapapa C K Stead Penguin Books, $24.95 In February last year C K Stead spoke to the twenty-seventh Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association congress. He called his address “Narrativity, or the Birth of the Story” and published…
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Tagged with: C K Stead, Issue 14, Kendrick Smithyman, Penguin Books, Winter 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 14
Tomorrow’s symbol, Nicholas Reid
Tomorrow’s God Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95 Reading Lloyd Geering’s Tomorrow’s God, an anecdote about the late Orson Welles kept surfacing in my mind. Welles was doing the standard talk‑show interview when he decided to hold forth on religion.…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 14, Lloyd Geering, Nicholas Reid, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Wielding the jawbone of an ass, Fleur Adcock
More than the myth he became, Tom Beard
Two out of four, Heather Murray
The Freedom Junkies Cliff Taylor Hazard Press, $24.95 The Age of Light Simon Wilson Penguin Books, $24.95 The Claim Sally Marshall Huia Publishers, $19.95 Jubilee Nepi Solomon Tandem Press, $19.95 Opening a novel by a new writer makes the…
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Tagged with: Cliff Taylor, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Huia Publishers, Issue 14, Nepi Solomon, Penguin Books, Sally Marshall, Simon Wilson, Tandem Press, Winter 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The need for success, Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Leap Into The Dark – The Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984 Andrew Sharp (ed) Auckland University Press, $34.95 One of the depressing features of New Zealand is the lack of sustained intellectual policy debate on…
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Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Issue 14, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review