Monthly Archives: September 2010
Tasteful Ventriloquism: A Love Letter to Janet Frame
Review of Gifted, posted by Dr. Bruce Harding, curator Ngaio Marsh House. A significantly shortened version of this review appeared recently in The Press, ‘Your Weekend’, p.34, 18 September 2010. GIFTED (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2010) by Patrick Evans. 303 … Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism
The Seeing Men: Paul Theroux and William Pember Reeves
If New Zealanders know Paul Theroux at all it is as the author of The Happy Isles of Oceania, a book in which he memorably describes New Zealand as a ‘bungaloid place’ and New Zealanders as stubbornly Calvinistic in their … Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society, Literary Criticism
Christchurch Mayoral Race
Christchurch locals have long memories. I have been told that my family was very generous in their (apparent) decision to apportion land to Christchurch Boys’ High School and Deans’ Bush. I have been asked whether the heritage water-wheel is up … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
