3 Mar 2019

Harry Ricketts looks back on 21 years of NZ Review of Books

From Standing Room Only, 2:37 pm on 3 March 2019
Harry Ricketts

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The just renamed New Zealand Review of Books/Pukapuka Aotearoa has just published its 125th issue since launching its offering of in-depth book reviews and opinion pieces back in 1991.

The periodical comes out four times a year, and prides itself on being this country's literary journal of record.

For instance, the 125th edition's contributors include C K Stead, Paula Morris, Barbara Else and Simon Upton,as well as the more than 20 books reviewed that range from fiction and poetry to non-fiction.

Lynn Freeman talks with Harry Ricketts who's been the co-editor of the New Zealand Review Of Books/Pukapuka Aotearoa for 21 years.  She first asked how the literary landscape has changed since the Review's early years.

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