The Interview – C.K. Stead
Mark Broatch in conversation with C.K Stead - February 2019
Karl Stead and Mark Broatch discuss crossing lines, carrying on and writing well.
‘I’m basically cheerful’. Stead at 86, on the work of a lifetime.
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‘…to put a finger, an articulated finger on It, this wonderful, awful instinctive understanding of ourselves…’ – Alan Duff
Display It Like You Stole It: Letter from London
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
Why Aren’t You Reading Queer?
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Patricia Grace
Winning words: Patricia Grace's 'Potiki'
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Paula Morris
Winning words: Paula Morris's 'Rangatira'
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Owen Marshall
Winning words: Owen Marshall's novel 'Harlequin Rex'
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Fiona Farrell
Winning words: Fiona Farrell's 'The Skinny Louie Book'
Conversation/Kōrero: Robert Sullivan and Billy Kahora
Billy Kahora and Robert Sullivan discuss ‘Ka Mate’, mother tongues, and precarious worlds.
'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell