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Charting destiny 23 Aug 2013 | 06:03 am
Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle by Peter Lineham (Penguin, $38) Reviewed by Judith Nathan Massey University’s Peter Lineham was the obvious choice to write a book about the Destiny ...
Black or white? 13 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
The White Princess by Phillippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster, $45) Reviewed by Judith Nathan A generation ago, many New Zealanders learned more about the Tudors in senior high-school history classes than...
There’s no easy way 18 Jul 2013 | 06:24 am
Poem of the Week: There is no easy way by Kate Camp Poet Kate Camp is next Monday’s (22 July) guest in the Writers at Te Papa series of lunch-time talks. The following poem is from her recently releas...
Up and About in Paris and London 16 Jul 2013 | 04:34 am
Lonely Planet London and Paris Special Collector’s Editions Reviewed by Judith Nathan To celebrate its 40th anniversary Lonely Planet has issued collectors’ editions of its London, Paris and New York ...
Carl Shuker at Te Papa 14 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
‘Brash and fearless’, is how the New York Times described Carl Shuker‘s first novel, The Method Actors, which won him the 2006 Prize in Modern Letters. His latest novel, Anti Lebanon, has just been pu...
The Power of Paint 9 Jul 2013 | 12:27 pm
The Opening: twelve love stories about art by Stephanie Radok Wakefield Press 2012 Reviewed by Ruth Brassington If you’re expecting love stories about two people whose eyes meet across an art gallery,...
A journey on the pro-choice highway 2 Jul 2013 | 02:20 pm
Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand By Alison McCulloch Victoria University Press Reviewed by Megan Whelan As controversy raged online last week, over the US senator Wendy ...
Defining Philosophy and Non-philosophy – Vaughan Rapatahana Reviews Michael Munro 23 Jun 2013 | 02:47 pm
What is Philosophy? – Michael Munro (Punctum Books, New York, 2012) Publisher: http://punctumbooks.com/ Review by Vaughan Rapatahana This is a refreshing book, mainly because it is not exactly a book ...
Vaughan Rapatahana – Two Poems from china as kafka 20 Jun 2013 | 03:35 pm
china as kafka china as kafka. hypnagogic imbroglio throughout limbo land. relentless brume of shale-shroud cities, cough-mixed chronic with ++++l+ a+ b+ y+ r+ I+ n+ t+ h+ i+ n+ e+ ++++++++ ‘law’, +++...
Vaughan Rapatahana, ‘americano’ From china as kafka 17 Jun 2013 | 02:02 am
americano in his mephistophelean slink toward some visceral glimmer of ‘democracy’ +++++in this ‘failed state’, americano pauses to pat his shades I+ n+ t+ o+ p+ l+ a+ c+ e. he redeems his brusque sui...
