Nov
08

Incredibly hot sex goes to Frankfurt

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All about zines. Bryce Galloway, the author of Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People talks to Michelle Hollis.

Jul
18

Small town love

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Bonnie Etherington reviews Dinner at Rose’s by Danielle Hawkins.

Jul
10

Your Unselfish Kindness

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An anthology of writings by Robin Hyde, the “dazzling but often overlooked New Zealand novelist, poet and journalist” has just been published. Dr Mary Edmond Paul, an authority on Hyde, is the editor. She talks to Redmer Yska.

Dec
13

Paddock to plate

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Professor Jacqueline Rowarth reviews Floreat Scientia: Celebrating New Zealand’s Agrifood Innovation.

Dec
13

Look and feel

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Rodney Adank reviews New Zealand by Design: A History of New Zealand Product Design by Michael Smythe.

Dec
09

Putting things right

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A senior lecturer in the College of Education, Dr Valerie Margrain is the co-editor of and one of 12 contributors to Responsive Pedagogy: Engaging Restoratively with Challenging Behaviour. She talks to Sue Allen.

Dec
09

Ice with that?

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A review of Grant Redvers’ Tara Arctic: A New Zealander’s Epic Voyage.

Jul
01

In Bruges

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According to history lecturer Andrew Brown, the author of Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges c.1300–1520, Bruges really is ‘like a fairytale’. He talks to Malcolm Wood.

Jul
01

A modest proposal: Introducing the Bachelor in Agricultural Humanities

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William Broughton’s ideas about multidisciplinary study were plainly ahead of his time. He talks to John Muirhead, currently head of the School of English and Media Studies, about a modest proposal he made back in 1971 in the pages of the capping magazine Masskerade for a course called Literate Agriculture 111.

May
06

Just William

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Paul Mulrooney talks to senior lecturer in history Dr James Watson about Prime Minister WF Massey. Dr Watson is the author of a biography of WF Massey written as one of the Makers of the Modern World series of books, covering the world leaders who signed the Treaty of Versailles at the 1919 Paris Peace…
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