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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Politics of (In)Visibilities

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Sapphic Fragments: Imogen Taylor with essays by M. Mitchell-Anyon and J. Drayton and Llew Summers by John Newton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, gender identity

‘All art comes from the depths of one’s feelings’

1 July 2020 Leave a Comment

Michael Dunn on Louise Henderson, ed Felicity Milburn et al

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Copy That

1 May 2020 Leave a Comment

Tasha Haines on Make It the Same by Jacob Edmond

Filed Under: arts and culture, literature, poetry

Quite a Ride

1 March 2020 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Making History by Jock Phillips

Filed Under: arts and culture, history, memoir, social sciences

Solitary Grandeur

6 November 2019 Leave a Comment

Martin Edmond on McCahon Country by Justin Paton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Reeling Them In

1 November 2019 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Whatever It Takes by John Reid

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography

Tasman Crossings

1 October 2019 Leave a Comment

Lucy Sussex on West Island by Stephanie Johnson

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography, literature

A History of Historicisation

1 August 2019 Leave a Comment

Caitlin Lynch on Filming the Colonial Past by Annabel Cooper

Filed Under: arts and culture, film, history, maori and pacific

Impure First 

1 July 2019 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture

The Grit that Makes the Pearl 

1 May 2019 Leave a Comment

Tasha Haines on The Writing Life by Deborah Shepard

Filed Under: arts and culture, literature, reviews and essays

Rootful Cosmopolitans

1 February 2019 Leave a Comment

Lucy Sussex The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand writers and the colonial world by Helen Bones (Otago University Press, 2018), 248pp., $35 In New Zealand it is common to talk about ‘OE’: Overseas Experience. Living in what is termed the antipodes, far from the centres of finance, population and power, fosters an attitude where travel is […]

Filed Under: arts and culture, history, literature

In Vivid Colour

1 February 2019 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens  Colours of a Life: The life and times of Douglas MacDiarmid by Anna Cahill (Mary Egan Publishing in association with MacDiarmid Arts Trust, 2018), 444 pp., $80 Before I settle in to a book I like to examine its paratextual material: features such as foreword, acknowledgments and endorsements. By examining the way […]

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography

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