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Gold Fever: From King Ferdinand to Shane Jones
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 10:22 am | Jeremy Rose
With the benefit of hindsight, the obscenity and irrationality of the European lust for gold is all too stark. Despite gold's lack of utility throughout centuries, that lust continues to this day. More >>
On The Grassroots Struggle To Create A New Constitution In Chile
Monday, 5 September 2022, 10:10 am | Jeremy Rose
Yesterday (4th September) New Zealand’s Chilean community voted overwhelmingly to approve a draft constitution in their homeland . It has been described as the world’s first truly feminist, environmental, and indigenous constitution. In Wellington More >>
Niueans Encouraged to Eat Free Range Chooks
Thursday, 10 July 2008, 4:44 pm | Jeremy Rose
Niue’s Director of Health Dr Sitaleki Finau is encouraging Niueans to begin eating free range chickens. Unlike in most countries the move would actually save locals money. More >>
Niue: Smoke Free Village To Smoke Free Nation
Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 5:32 pm | Jeremy Rose
Niue could become the world’s first smoke free nation. Last year the village of Tuapa became the first village in Niue - and possibly the world - to declare itself smoke free. Scoop Review of Books editor Jeremy Rose reports... More >>
Niue: An Advertising Free Country
Monday, 7 July 2008, 7:56 am | Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose reports that Niue is quite possibly the closest thing to an advertising free country on Earth. The small Pacific nation's one television and one radio station are both ad free and advertising billboards are conspicuous by their absence. More >>
Pacific News: Niue Prepares for Influx of Visitors
Monday, 7 July 2008, 7:31 am | Jeremy Rose
With up to 500 visitors expected to descend on Niue for next month's Pacific Islands Forum, the country's health professionals are bracing themselves once again for the possible negative impacts of outside visitors. More >>
Booker Winner Ditches Listener Sub
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:47 pm | Jeremy Rose
Booker prize-winner Keri Hulme hasn't exactly flooded the world with words since snapping up the Booker with The Bone People, but she took the time last week to announce on a local website she wouldn't be renewing her Listener subscription. More >>
Five Books For Anzac Weekend
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:33 pm | Jeremy Rose
This week, with the country's books pages filled with reviews of books released to coincide with ANZAC Day, we thought we would recommend five books documenting those brave souls that risked their lives and/or liberty resisting war. More >>
Scoop Review Of Books Weekly Newsletter 18 Apr 08
Friday, 18 April 2008, 9:06 am | Jeremy Rose
New this week on the Scoop Review of Books... 'The Sixth Man' by James McNeish is reviewed by Mark Derby, 'The Stuff of Thought' by Steven Pinker is reviewed by Bernard Steeds, and 'The Quiet Girl' by Peter Høeg reviewed by Alison McCulloch. More >>
Extraordinary Biography Of An Extraordinary Life
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 11:14 pm | Jeremy Rose
Paddy Costello's Russian-Jewish wife Bella, we are told, 'had in her beauty and sadness the sadness of small Jewish towns hemmed in by curses'. The precision, power and originality of this description are representative of the book. More >>
Kasper’s Sense Of Sound
Monday, 14 April 2008, 10:14 pm | Jeremy Rose
Kasper Krone has the hearing of a terrier and the indestructibility of a super-hero. He's annoying in a mystery-wrapped-in-a-riddle-tied-in-an-enigma kind of way, and can be awfully pompous. Kasper is the latest creation of Peter Hoeg, the Danish author. More >>
Bougainville Backgrounder
Monday, 7 April 2008, 10:18 pm | Jeremy Rose
Many readers of Lloyd Jones's Mr Pip come to the novel unaware that there is even an island called Bougainville let alone with any knowledge of the conflict that provides the backdrop to the award winning work. The following extract from New Zealand Abroad: ... More >>
Stutterer Gets Writers And Readers Week Off
Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:57 pm | Jeremy Rose
Stutterers don't stutter when they're talking to dogs.... Unless, perhaps, they're an intimidatingly intelligent dog," life-long stutterer and author, David Mitchell, noted while answering a question at the opening session of Wellington's Writers and ... More >>
Master Of The Intellectual Unease Packs Embassy
Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:47 pm | Jeremy Rose
There aren't many novelists who can sell out Wellington's grand single-screen Embassy Theatre. On a recent mid week afternoon Ian McEwan, the English master of intellectual unease, packed the Embassy to its lovely moulded plaster ceiling. More >>
The 302 Trillion Dollar War
Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:28 pm | Jeremy Rose
I'm no economist, and definitely not a Nobel Prize winning one, but by my calculations Joseph Stiglitz has under-estimated the cost of the Iraq war by a factor of 100 in his recently released The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. More >>
Spare Prick at a Funeral
Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:13 pm | Jeremy Rose
Owen Marshall's new novel, DRYBREAD , is frank and funny. A wry meditation on how we come together and fall apart. It revolves around Christchurch print journo, Theo Esler. He has the scoop on Penny Maine-King, an ex-pat Kiwi who's done a runner from ... More >>
A Bougainvillian Gives Mr Pip The Thumbs-Up
Monday, 7 April 2008, 9:05 pm | Jeremy Rose
Lloyd Jones's award winning Mr Pip has been celebrated from London to New York but until now a Bougainvillian voice has been absent from those praising it. More >>
Community On The Verge of Extinction
Friday, 4 April 2008, 3:34 pm | Jeremy Rose
Connew's photos of the descendents of the indentured labourers that make up Fiji's dwindling Indian community, on the other hand, provide a portrait of a community rooted to the land it toils. More >>
The New Imperialists
Friday, 4 April 2008, 12:35 pm | Jeremy Rose
The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United States is an imperial power as accepted and supported by various neocon pundits and apologists, and part a recognition that it takes a different form than previous empires. More >>
Master Of The Intellectual Unease Packs Embassy
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 10:14 pm | Jeremy Rose
There aren't many novelists who can sell out Wellington's grand single-screen Embassy Theatre. On a recent mid week afternoon Ian McEwan, the English master of intellectual unease, packed the Embassy to its lovely moulded plaster ceiling. More >>
