Monday, August 27, 2012

New Zealand Books - quarterly review journal - issue # 99 out this week





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.
 It should be noted that the next issue of New Zealand Books will be the 100th - a remarkable achievement - why not subscribe or renew now to make sure of getting this historic issue!

List of contents:

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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