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Weekend supplement to Otago Daily Times
There’s been a good bit of exploration and interrogation of Māori identity in recent years. Which can be surprising on one level, in as much as it is Pākehā who arguably have more work to do here, to find the punga (anchor) that secures their...
While the roast chicken rests and its flesh settles itself, ready for carving, I put the roasting tin aside for later. Once dinner is over, I strip the carcass of any remaining juicy pieces of meat and set them aside. The bones and wings will go...
Reb Fountain is back with a new album, and touring with a fivepiece band. The album, Water for Gasoline, was written and captured in quick order in Fountain’s garage studio — almost every song recorded live in a single take. It is an album...
Devastating, raw, violent, scarcely relenting and real — the Via Dolorosa of Roisin McCaffrey. Louise Kennedy’s Stations is related almost entirely from the point of view of Roisin, a 16yearold in the opening chapters of the novel, in 1982,...