What does a revised edition of Michael King’s history of NZ tell us about ourselves in these darker, meaner, less tolerant times?
Philip Matthews
Philip Matthews is a journalist with Stuff, and the author of The Quiet Hero: The extraordinary life and death of a Kiwi volunteer aid worker in Ukraine (Allen & Unwin, 2023). He won reviewer of the year at the 2022 Voyager media awards.
The reliable Mr Bagshaw
On the Kiwi doctor who lost his life saving the lives of hundreds of people in wartorn Ukraine
Book of the Week: Chidgey, again
The extraordinary Catherine Chidgey is back, already, with a page turning novel about a family with a piece missing
Book of the Week: Speed, LSD and other thrills
Philip Matthews on a reissued stoner classic
Flying Nun, picturesquely
Philip Matthews on what the Dunedin Sound looked like, in the first of our week-long Music Week series
Book of the Week: Bill Gosden directs
Philip Matthews pays tribute to a film festival genius
Book of the Week: Whorehouse confidential
Philip Matthews reviews a comic memoir by a former massage parlour receptionist
Mangling Owen Marshall
Philip Matthews suffers the film version of Owen Marshall's short story Coming Home in the Dark
Auckland, 'slum of the far South Seas'
Philip Matthews reviews Time to Make a Song and Dance, about a decade of cultural revolt in Auckland
Book of the Week: The gospel of Christian Karl Stead
Philip Matthews assesses CK Stead's version of the controversial writer CK Stead.
Book of the Week: The book of the year, probably
We conclude our week-long look at Charlotte Grimshaw's sensational memoir with a review by Philip Matthews.
Book review: How to look at Chch
Philip Matthews reviews a survey of the new architecture in post-quake Christchurch