Helen Watson White on Searching for Charlie by Tom Scott
He kura kāinga e hokia: he kura tangata e kore e hokia. The treasure of land will persist: human possessions will not
Gerry Te Kapa Coates on Rebuilding the Kāinga by Jade Kake and #NoFly by Shaun Hendy
Hammer and Sickle, Yeah!
Max Oettli Seen in China 1956 by Tom Hutchins, edited by John B. Turner (Turner Photo Books in collaboration with Photo Forum as Photoforum issue 86, 2016), 124 pp., $25; The Shops by Steve Braunias and Peter Black (Luncheon Sausage Press Books/Photo Forum, 2016), 62 pp., $40 What did I know about China in 1956? […]
Nobodies, Munters and Geniuses
Denis Harold The Scene of the Crime, by Steve Braunias (HarperCollins, 2015), 320 pp., $39.99 We learn that Steve Braunias did some preparatory research for his book The Scene of the Crime, subtitled Twelve extraordinary true stories of crime and punishment, by reading ‘about crime writing in Te Ara, the New Zealand online encyclopedia for […]
Number One with a Bullet
David Herkt Greatest Hits, by David Cohen (Mākaro Press, 2014), 316 pp., $35 Language can be a weapon, as David Cohen, armed only with his words and phrases, very ably demonstrates in Greatest Hits, an anthology of pieces drawn from a quarter century of media-work. In a Listener review of 2006 he so thoroughly deflates […]