The Great Gatsby is one of the few books I enjoyed more on the second, third, fourth, reading. I think it’s basically perfect. Which is why I’m worried about the forthcoming film. Read more »
Posts By: Alexandra Hollis
You Must Be Ned Stark’s Bastard
The Foundation Trilogy, By Isaac Asimov
Sci-fi is cool, guys, and if you’re thinking about getting into it you could do worse than Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Read more »
Salient’s Guide to Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
Trust us, this really works! Read more »
Tropic of Skorpeo – Michael Morrissey
If you can get into it, Tropic of Skorpeo is fun. There’s some fighting, some kidnapping, two thwarted weddings, a love plot, and at one point Rhameo does go to sleep inside a giant vagina on a planet called Pornotopia. Read more »
A Day in the Life of: Carbon-Neutral Student
I lift up my arms and feel my hairs rustle in the breeze. Today is a good day. Tomorrow I shall bead them with the tiny earth stones my aura advisor/guru gave to me after realigning my chakra yesterday. Read more »
The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
With a charming surrealism and a whimsical, slightly troubled logic, the stories in The Elephant Vanishes are condensed bursts of Murakami—but not at all diminished for this. Read more »
Pakeha or NZ European: The White Choice?
While I might be descended from white colonising bastards, as a white New Zealander I’ve always been Pākehā. Read more »
The Next Day – David Bowie
It would be enough to have new Bowie, after all this time. But what we get is so much more; this is a proper album, not some half-arsed post-Best-Of revival. Read more »
I Give It a Year
As a rom-com, it does the comedy well but the romance poorly. Read more »
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