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SRB: Speaking Truth to the Beneficiaries of Empire
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 11:17 pm | Scoop Review of Books
The phrase, "Speaking Truth to Power", popular among progressives, irritates me. It's as if those using it think the powerful are simply ignorant of the facts and if only a few brave souls were prepared to tell them the error of their ways ... More >>
SRB: Premature Burning...
Monday, 16 June 2008, 8:30 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Misconduct by Bridget van der Zijpp Victoria University Press, $30 REVIEWED BY SUSAN EDMUNDS for the Scoop Review of Books Who hasn't thought about torching their ex-boyfriend’s car? Bridget van der Zijpp’s heroine gets the chance within the first few pages ... More >>
SRB: Spectactular Transition in the Pacific
Sunday, 15 June 2008, 6:51 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by Ron Crocombe. Institute of Pacific Studies Publications, University of the South Pacific, 2007. Reviewed by David Robie for the The Pacific Journalism Review More >>
SRB: Montanas Unleash Literary Tempest
Friday, 13 June 2008, 9:24 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 13 June 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Montanas Unleash Literary Tempest
Friday, 13 June 2008, 9:24 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 13 June 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Comatosed Chick Lit for Post Shopaholics
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 8:10 am | Scoop Review of Books
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella Bantam (Random House), $40. Reviewed by Andrea Jutson for the The Pacific Journalism Review Another stand-alone novel from the author of the wildly successful and somewhat annoying Shopaholic series, Remember Me? is an ... More >>
SRB: Abortion: War Without End
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 4:00 pm | Scoop Review of Books
By Alison McCulloch Abortion has always been a hard sell. You can’t go around saying you’re for it (you have to agree with the opposition and say you’d like to see the numbers go down); the people who’ve had one won’t help you because ... More >>
SRB: W B Sutch - Prophet Without Honour
Monday, 9 June 2008, 7:54 pm | Scoop Review of Books
By Tim Bollinger for the Scoop Review of Books New Zealand writer, thinker and public servant Dr. William Ball Sutch (1907-1975) was an intellectual giant in a country characterised by a culture of anti-intellectualism. Sutch was one of the country’s ... More >>
SRB: Three Decades of Slander Continue
Sunday, 8 June 2008, 10:03 am | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week June 7 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Insight into an Outstanding Journalist
Friday, 6 June 2008, 7:49 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Louise Nicholas: My Story, by Louise Nicholas and Philip Kitchin Auckland: Random House, 2007, $37, Reviewed by JAMES HOLLINGS for The Pacific Journalism Review The Louise Nicholas case has probably generated more gossip, discussion and talkback ... More >>
SRB: Treasures of the Tchakat Henu
Monday, 2 June 2008, 6:22 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Manu Moriori: Human and Bird Carvings on Live Kopi Trees on the Chatham Islands by Rhys Richards Paremata Press, Wellington, 2007. Reviewed by SCOTT HAMILTON for the Scoop Review of Books Last year Television New Zealand won plaudits for broadcasting ... More >>
SRB: Monkey Business
Friday, 30 May 2008, 9:25 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 30 May 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books In this week's SRB Picks: Shakespeare an Italian Jewess? Janet Frame and the Marx Brothers and: the Charleston Heston of the motor car - Jeremy Clarkson at Britain's premier ... More >>
SRB: Jewish Baghdad: A City Lost
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 6:53 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Farewell Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad By Naim Kattan Souvenir Press, $50. Reviewed LEON BENBARUK for the Scoop Review of Books Farewell Babylon is the translation from the original French book Adieu Babylone (1975) and tells of the ... More >>
SRB: Writer Block Advocates the NET
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 7:02 pm | Scoop Review of Books
By Sally Conor for the Scoop Review of Books American writer Stefan Merrill Block believes that technology and the internet are completely changing the way young novelists are writing and structuring their work. Block, 26, who made a flying visit to Auckland ... More >>
SRB: Grab and Mash
Monday, 26 May 2008, 9:33 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Popular Potatoes by Simon & Alison Holst HYNDMAN PUBLISHING, $25. Reviewed by KATHRYN HUTCHINSON for the Scoop Review of Books Potatoes, as you may well be aware, are good. This is not only because they are textually pleasing, tasty and of course ... More >>
SRB: Colonial Culture?
Sunday, 25 May 2008, 8:43 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad, by Joanna Woods Published by Otago University Press, $45. Reviewed by JANE BLAIKIE for the Scoop Review of Books This thoroughly enjoyable biography springs from a period of New Zealand cultural history ... More >>
SRB: Ode to a Foreskin
Friday, 23 May 2008, 5:08 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 23 May 08 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Hunchback Lawyer & the Madman
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 8:14 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Revelation By C J Sansom Macmillan, $38, Reviewed by ANDREA JUTSON for the Scoop Review of Books C J Sansom’s Shardlake series is not only a vividly realistic chronicle of Tudor England, but an engrossing set of whodunnits to boot. In his fourth Matthew ... More >>
SRB: Long Yarns, Short Stories
Monday, 19 May 2008, 8:06 pm | Scoop Review of Books
The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin’s Southland Stories Edited By Janet Wilson Reviewed By BRIAN POTIKI for the Scoop Review of Books Dan Davin was eleven when James Joyce’s Dubliners was published. In the last of these short stories “The Dead” we are ... More >>
SRB: Five Comics that Changed My Life
Sunday, 18 May 2008, 8:34 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Five Comics that Changed My Life By Tim Bollinger for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
