Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Murray Edmond, Caxton Press, 1988 Scott Hamilton Talks with Murray Edmond about His Eighties Masterpiece Town and Country Players perform Games We Play, a piece about the turmoil around the 1981 Springbok Tour of Aotearoa. From left to right: Murray Edmond, Anne Hunt, Ralph Johnson, and Janet Elepans. For five and a half decades Murray Edmonds has been one of Aotearoa's most innovative and interesting writers. This is part of an interview I did with the man during his recent

John Layard, Chatto & Windus, London, 1942 Reviewed by Andrew Paul Wood Haidy Geismar included this photo of Vianney Atpatoun holding a 'bootleg' copy of John Layard's book in her fascinating essay 'The Stone Men of Malekula: an ethnography of an ethnography'. The essay can be read via her page at ResearchGate. John Layard & Stonemen of Malekula: from Colonial Archives to Village Council I. Ethnographic texts, far from being static documents, are living artifacts that continu

John Pule, Canterbury University Press, 2014 Reviewed by Scott Hamilton The Bond of Time was written in 1983 and published in a small edition in 1985. It was republished in 1998 by the Pacific Writing Forum in Fiji, then appeared in a new edition with an introduction by Jeffrey Papamoa Holman in 2024. This is the cover of the 2024 edition; it features Pule's painting The Great World (to Ha). RS: Massey University Press has just published This Must Be the Island: Liga Hanai e

pip adam, Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2026 Reviewed by Scott Hamilton 'No one else in New Zealand is writing like this' says Philip Matthews in an admiring review of pip adam's new novel kluge for Newsroom. Like the creators of modernism a century ago, pip adam is trying to find new ways of writing suitable for a new century. And like them she is addressing the crises of her century. The academic industry that has grown up around modernist masterworks like TS Eliot's Th