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Actually, what I was reading earlier this month. Have been busy writing a book. As one does. Is. Am. Whatever. More filth at Ally’s place:...

At about 10 p.m. I gave up waiting for Stuff, the Herald, Creative NZ, Booksellers NZ or even Facebook to notify us of the winners of the NZ...

All eyes are on Wellington tonight for the announcement of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards . While we wait anxiously, let us amuse ourselves wi...

Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar excels himself with this suggestion for how the next government could find a use for the inevitable John Bank...

For evidence to support the proposition advanced in the July issue of North & South , and fisked by me here last week, that “most New Ze...

From the Economist ’s obituary of Robert Oakeshott, a passionate advocate of workers’ co-operatives who inadvertently damaged Doris Lessing ...

As reported here last year, in January 2010 Katherine Mansfield started blogging. She’s still going, every day posting extracts from whatev...

North & South responded last night to Thursday’s post “Fisking North & South on New Zealand novels” and I responded to the response....

Not what you want to hear from the seven-year-old daughter, is it. She’s home sick while I work on three books at once – who said men can’...

The good news is that ACP’s flagship magazine North & South devotes six pages of its August issue to New Zealand novels. The article as...