Rachel O’Connor on Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara; The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist by Trisha Hanifin.
Sisyphus in Sāmoa
Shana Chandra on Both Feet in Paradise by Andy Southall.
The Physics of Fiction
Chris Else on Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
The Outrageous and the Everyday
Kerry Lane on The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale
Between the Long and the Short of It
Sally Blundell on Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand ed. Craig Gamble
A Beautiful World Has Gone
Robert McLean on Letters of Denis Glover, ed Sarah Shieff
In the Footsteps of Robin Hyde
Sally Blundell on Shining Land by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Copy That
Tasha Haines on Make It the Same by Jacob Edmond
Daring to Take the Leap into Clarity
Bill Direen on Karl Wolfskehlby Friedrich Voit
Tasman Crossings
Lucy Sussex on West Island by Stephanie Johnson
The Grit that Makes the Pearl
Tasha Haines on The Writing Life by Deborah Shepard
Rootful Cosmopolitans
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 […]