Eleanor Catton and the problem with “literary thrillers”
Her new novel raises the question: is the genre code for a thriller that simply isn’t very thrilling?
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If only all political leaders resigned with dignity like Jacinda Ardern
From Truss to Trump, and Boris to Bolsonaro, the world is deficient in leaders prepared to do the decent thing.
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Jacinda Ardern’s resignation is both a shock and entirely unsurprising
Ardern became a national and global sensation – but her fortunes soured as the pandemic persisted.
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The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield
A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
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Nina Mingya Powles’s Small Bodies of Water blends memoir, criticism and nature writing
In this fragmentary book, Powles considers complex ideas of belonging, language and how to exist across cultures.
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New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern’s unfinished business
In her second term, the iconic leader must put her popularity at the service of bold domestic reform.
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