Rapid Reviews: any excuse to read!
October in the New Zealand is supposed to be the lead up to summer. In…
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Wimpy Z1596: the little ginger man.
The glasses have been washed; the medals put away; the poppies binned and our collective…
Rapid Reviews: Christmas good reads
I start to panic around the 21st of December. What if I read all the…
Some Recent New Zealand Fiction Reviewed by Marcus Hobson
ARTbop Contributions Editor, Marcus Hobson, says it is always good to feature new books from…
Rapid Reviews: design and death
As a little girl I was “confined to bed” for a reasonably long period of…
Hobson chooses again: Edward Hopper – “In Sunlight and in Shadow”
Sometimes a book or an idea will come along and really blow your socks off.…
Arts Revealed: Eastern Bay of Plenty Conversations with artists, writers, musicians and performers
ARTbop contributor and photographer Lee Switzer reviews Arts revealed a comprehensive work by Heather Hourigan…
The Bishop, the Mullah & the Smartphone: Two Religions Journey into the Digital Age
Neither priest nor proselytizer, merely a man with years of experience in IT and marketing,…
Bryan Winters: transmitting the message through media
It’s a common ambition amongst our writers, faced with a home market that’s challenging in…
The door we do not open – The Eye-eaters
Author Peter Wells has come over from Rotorua for his early evening book talk and…