Issue 99 of NZ Books (Spring 2012) will be in bookstores on
29 August. Full of excellent
reviews and articles, including Helen Sword's piece on horrible academic
prose - she's the author of a new book
called Stylish Academic Writing.
List of contents:
Elspeth Sandys: Emily Perkins, The Forrests
Elspeth Sandys: Emily Perkins, The Forrests
Chris Else:
Russell Haley, The Spaces
Between; Julian
Novitz, Little Sister; Gigi Fenster, The Intentions Book
Nicholas Reid:
Lawrence Patchett, I
Got His Blood on Me
Helen Watson White:
Old New World: Photographs by
Mary Macpherson
Martin Edmond:
James McNeish, Touchstones: A
Memoir
Angelina Sbroma:
James Norcliffe, The Enchanted
Flute; Fleur
Beale, Heart of Danger
Joanne Drayton:
Peter Whiteford (ed), A
Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan;
John Mulgan (Peter Whiteford, ed), Journey
to Oxford
Lawrence Patchett:
Sacha de Bazin, The Day She
Cradled Me
Helen Sword:
“Defuzzification” (comment)
Sue Court:
Wendy Pond and Paul Wolffram (eds), World Music is Where We Found it: Essays by and for Allan Thomas
Penelope Todd:
Stephanie Johnson, The
Open World
Iain Sharp:
Laurence Simmons, Tuhituhi:
William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific
Elizabeth Smither:
Mary Edmond-Paul (ed), Your
Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings
Tony Schirato:
Nick Perry, Ruling Passions:
Essays on Just About Everything
Lawrence Jones:
Janet Frame, Gorse is Not
People: New and Uncollected Stories
Louise O’Brien:
Michael King, The Silence
Beyond: Selected Writings;
Gordon McLauchlan, The
Passionless People Revisited
Nadine France:
Helen Heath, Graft; Gregory O’Brien, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool; Harry Ricketts, Just Then
Elizabeth Crayford:
Lynn Davidson, Common Land; Anne Kennedy, The Darling North; Aleksandra Lane, Birds of Clay
David Zwartz:
Leonard Bell and Diana Morrow (eds), Jewish Lives in New Zealand: A History
Holly Johnson:
Elisabeth McDonald and Yvette Tinsley (eds), From “Real Rape” to Real Justice: Prosecuting Rape in New Zealand
Caroline Daley:
Charlotte Macdonald, Strong,
Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and
Canada, 1935-1960
Kevin L Jones:
Paul Moon, New Zealand in the
20th Century: The Nation, The People
Peter Calder:
Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar (eds), Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New
Zealand
Rebecca Priestley:
Michael C Corballis, Pieces
of Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain
Marilyn Duckworth:
“No Message – Harpo” (byline)
Prize cryptic crossword
Caoilinn Hughes: “The Transit of Venus” (poem)
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