How to Fare Well And Stay Fair by Adnan Mahmutović Salt, 2012 Reviewed by Melissa Lee-Houghton ‘Still, wherever we are, there remains the MYTH, all defined, capitalized and italicized, built up from scratch into one of the most magnificent air castles between Heaven and Hell.’ Has a book ever taken you somewhere, not necessarily a place you […]
Interview with Tina Makereti author of Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa
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Interview with Tina Makereti, author of Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, reviewed by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson How long did it take you to write all the stories in your collection? It’s hard to say – the actual time period was nearly two years but I was doing things other than writing for a large portion […]
Review of Twice in a Lifetime, by Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson
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Twice in a Lifetime by Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson Translated from the Icelandic by Maria Helga Guðmundsdóttir and Anna Benassi Comma Press, September 2011 Reviewed by AJ Kirby “In bed, the day flashes through his head in disparate fragments: a yellow bus, black plastic bags, deep wrinkles, a bread roll on […]
Review: Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, by Tina Makereti
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Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa Tina Makereti Huia Publishers, 2010 Reviewed by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson “That last afternoon with Koro Joe was like a clue to the boy. There was a trail for him to follow: things he had seen, or heard, fractured memories he could link together to form an ongoing idea about the world.” The […]
Interview with Jeff Gardiner, author of A Glimpse of the Numinous
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Interview with Jeff Gardiner, author of A Glimpse of the Numinous reviewed by AJ Kirby What do you understand by the word ‘numinous’? I think of it as a way of expressing the deeper realities of life itself. The ‘numen’ refers to a spirit or deity, so numinous is a term for describing a personal and […]
From the Archives: Collected Stories by Janice Galloway
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Collected Stories by Janice Galloway Vintage, 2009 Reviewed by Tania Hershman “She may not speak much but she knows EVERY WORD YOU SAY. Her mother said that. Kind of thing you say about spaniels. Biddable things. Pets. They sentimentalise. It’s easier than looking, REALLY LOOKING, seeing what there is to see.” When I finished this […]
