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July, 1922: John Middleton Murray and Katherine Mansfield at the Chateau Belle Vue, Sierre, six months before her death.

From the Listener archive: Features

July 5-11 2008 Vol 214 No 3556

  • Cover “Always my thoughts & feelings go back to New Zealand” by Vincent O'Sullivan
    The publication of the last volume of Katherine Mansfield’s letters provides a fresh perspective on the emotional tug of her homeland in the face of imminent death.

  • Feature Bloomsbury Trailing by Diana Wichtel
    Diana Wichtel almost bumps into Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell and their avant-garde circle as she visits the wonderful homes they lived in.

  • Feature Seizing the day by Rebecca Macfie
    Meeting school students’ health and literacy needs can have a remarkable “booster” effect.

  • Feature When the seas attack by Sarah Barnett
    Talk of sea levels rising by a metre was once mocked – but climate change studies now show this is a real possibility.

  • Feature Pitiless blue skies by Julie Hare
    Is Australia’s “big dry” ever going to break?

  • Feature Safety not necessarily assured by Kerrie Waterworth
    A woman’s death after an accident with an unflued gas heater has sparked calls for such appliances to be banned.

  • Feature - Upfront Rennie Gould by Joanne Black
    ROUGH JUSTICE, THE REX HAIG STORY by Rex Haig and Rennie Gould, $34.99, released on July 3.