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‘Transgressive intimacy’ is the term Slow Burn author Lissa Mitchell, Te Papa curator of historical photography, chooses to describe Anne Noble’s 1980s photo-suite Nighthawks which records a nocturnal sequence of desire. Whether inchoate or explicit, this is the grand theme of Slow Burn. Much of the imagery selected speaks to the po...


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Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life

by Diana Morrow

Otago University Press

ISBN: 9781991348128

Published: October 2025

Format: Paperback, 288 pages

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Names always matter. The narrator in Charlotte Grimshaw’s new and sometimes perplexing novel, The Black Monk, is named Alice Lidell – very close to Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. If names matter, this means we should expect trickery and unreality, characters who are doubles and cha...


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