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July 11-17 2009 Vol 219 No 3609

Features

  • Cover Story Past tense by Ruth Laugesen
    Historian James Belich has gone global with his new book on the rise of the Anglo-World. And he says it is time for New Zealanders to embrace their settler past and recognise that Pakeha ancestors were not models of virtue.

  • Feature Burying the hatchet by Diana Wichtel
    Take-no-prisoners interviewer Lynn Barber didn’t get where she is today by being nice to her beleaguered subjects, but she’s surprisingly genial when the tables are turned.

  • Feature Under the bridge by Mary Jane Boland
    Why would you choose to sleep rough? Photographer David White and Mary Jane Boland track down one couple who have chosen to do just that.

  • Feature New Zealand’s forgotten isles by Ruth Laugesen
    Does New Zealand care whether its far-flung territory of Tokelau disappears beneath the waves?

Arts & Books

  • Arts Haka in the West End by Jon Lusk

  • Film Family ties by Alexander Bisley

  • Film Death becomes them by Helene Wong

  • Classical Full to bursting by Ian Dando

  • Music Slippery people by Graham Reid

Books

  • Books Virgil, the anti-war poet by David Larsen

  • Books Lost with a map by Caren Wilton

  • Books A room of her own by Helen Watson White

TV & Radio

Columnists

  • Editorial Hide and seek

  • Obituary Michael Jackson by Chris Bourke

  • Life Born to be wild by Bill Ralston

  • The Internaut The boy from Neverland by Deborah Hill Cone

  • Politics At all costs by Jane Clifton

  • Health Let's get physical by Linley Boniface

  • Nutrition Oat cuisine by Jennifer Bowden

  • Sport That nasty travel bug by Richard Becht

  • Inbox Seeing orange by Jon Bridges

  • Economy Rocky horror show by Brian Easton

  • Ecologic Cloak & dagger by Sarah Barnett

  • Food Return to Liguria by Martin Bosley

  • Travel The beat goes on by Brett Atkinson

  • Wine Island of wine by Michael Cooper

  • The Black Page Walking on the moon by Joanne Black