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Differently wired, Harvey Molloy and Latika Vasil
A Perfect World: A Father’s Quest to Unriddle the Mysteries of Autism David Cohen Random House, $34.95, ISBN 9781869418151 As New Zealanders, we like to pride ourselves that we live in a caring egalitarian society with decent, though imperfect, health…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Harvey Molloy, Issue 82, Latika Vasil, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Digging deep, Ann Beaglehole
Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish Lyndon Fraser Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877372445 Mine Alone: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire R D Mercer Butterfly Creek Press, $39.95, ISBN 9780473120115 Stories…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Butterfly Creek Press, Issue 81, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, R D Mercer, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The rain on her face, John B Turner
Monsoon Brian Brake David Bateman, $59.99, ISBN 13978186953608 For those familiar with Brian Brake’s “Monsoon” essay from Life and other magazines in the early 1960s, or those who more recently enjoyed the large-print exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Brian Brake, David Bateman, Issue 82, John B Turner, Winter 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
History in danger, Malcolm McKinnon
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History J G A Pocock Cambridge University Press, $60.00 approx, ISBN 139780521850957 J G A Pocock’s The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History is a rich and scholarly exploration of a subject…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 81, J G A Pocock, Malcolm McKinnon, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Telling responses, Hamish Clayton
Look This Way: New Zealand Writers on New Zealand Artists Sally Blundell (ed) Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 9781869403713 Art and letters have always had a close working relationship in New Zealand. Our cultural landscape is pock-marked with painter-poets, jacks-of-all-trades…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Hamish Clayton, Issue 82, Sally Blundell, Winter 2008
Posted in Art, Essays, Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Language, Non-fiction, Review
Why we are here, Bernard Carpinter
Looking for Darwin Lloyd Spencer Davis Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 0781877361227 Science has somehow acquired an almost inhuman reputation. Scientists are regarded as dry, dusty specimens, cut off from society and probably working on projects that will cause more harm…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Charles Darwin, Issue 81, Lloyd Spencer Davis, Longacre Press, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Framing herself, Kim Worthington
Towards Another Summer Janet Frame Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 1869418689 In the months leading up to last year’s posthumous release of Towards Another Summer, a novel written almost 45 years earlier, we learned only that Janet Frame deemed it “too embarrassingly…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Janet Frame, Kim Worthington, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
In the beginning, Peter Russell
Peter Russell looks at his childhood reading through the eyes of Ovid. At the time when the story opens, a little boy named Maui … was playing on the sea-shore. He was so happy, picking up shells and watching the…
The universe and everything, Philip Temple
Waimarino County and Other Excursions Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869403911 Phone Home Berlin – Collected Non-fiction Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864735676 The revival of the essay in book form continues compensating, to our applause,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Martin Edmond, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review