Text by Bob Harvey, Photographs by Tony Bridge
Exisle Publishing, HB$59.95

By Lindsay Shelton
Awa Press, PB $39.99 | Reviewed by Alexander Bisley

Whata ngarongarongo he tangata,
toitu te whenua.

People disappear,
but the land remains.

Kia tupato i nga whakawai
Kia kaha ra, kia kaha ra

Land is all we have
to rest a throbbing heart

By Craig Seligman
Counterpoint, HB$49.95 | Reviewed by Alexander Bisley

Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me, instantly riveting, has taken me a ridiculous amount of time to review. The first time I read it I didn’t want to make notes, to sully the experience or the physical aesthetic of this exceedingly pleasurable book. Two wonderful (albeit problematic) writers, Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael, are channeled by a delightful scribe, Louisianan Craig Seligman. (Which isn’t to say it is perfect; the critic N.P. Thompson gives it an uneven, sometimes well-argued kicking, notably why Seligman is wrong to criticise Sontag for not politicising her bisexuality.)