Quote Unquote

The 76th in this occasional series of reprints from  Quote Unquote  the magazine is from the June 1995 issue. Mark Broatch, currently t...

I have just finished editing a book by Bruce Ansley about the back roads of New Zealand. The first time I worked with Bruce was on Coas...

From the 23 February edition: Same old, same old Both opinions of Joe Bennett and Peter Dornauf are the same old gurgitation, ever se...

Amazing that we can have a longlist of nine for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. All hail Craig Sisterson for organising th...

In his Spectator Diary of 14 February, novelist Sebastian Faulks , author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray , writes : When I last had a...

It is only the 10th of February but there will not be a better headline in the next 18 days than this in the Economist about driverless ca...

Tim Worstall, Portugal-resident author of 20 Economics Fallacies , expert on scandium (he does 60% of the world’s trading, according to The...

Previous posts here and here . And now this, from the 20 December issue of Private Eye : In 2010 the media reported that Jemima Khan, ...

Creative New Zealand is calling for applications for the $40,000 Berlin Fellowship, Closing date is 6 March. Full details here . The ...

The former singer in the 80s band the Mockers, Andrew Fagan  is a multi-talented chap: he is a poet (four collections, I think), child...