New Zealand Listener

From the New Zealand Listener archive

January 3-9 2004 Vol 192 No 3321

Upfront Robert Rodriguez by Gordon Campbell
Feeling happy while being creative is dead easy. The real test is in how you handle the chores that go...
The sun has got his hat on by Bruce Ansley
An appreciation of summers past, present and always golden
The Reversal or, The Stirring of the Taniwha by Vincent O'Sullivan
Susan of Karori was plumpishly attractive, thoughtful, and wore a bone carving before it was a sign one now earned...
Blindspot by Marilyn Duckworth
The day the last of Connie’s friends turned into an answerphone machine she began talking to the dolls...
I, Boadicea by Fay Weldon
Midnight, July 8, AD62. I, Boadicea, am too restless to sleep. This is the eve of battle...
Osome by Chad Taylor
There was a cliché that forensic investigation gave missing persons a voice but that wasn’t true...
Donkeys Are Introverts by Sarah Quigley
I was lying in bed beside you one day when suddenly I knew what it was to be a gopher...
Celeine and the Pygmalion Theatre by Owen Marshall
The Pygmalion theatre was in our suburb. We lived next door in fact, and I remember when that double-storeyed, corner...
Like a Mexican by Paula Morris
The night I meet Carlos, I’m at the SoHo Grand with some of my colleagues after work...
Legs: an Acknowledgement by C K Stead
Lost in my head I don’t think about my legs until they catch my eye...