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The Road Not Taken
Richard von Sturmer: doppelgänger (9/12/2020)The Interrupted Journey Yesterday I packed up my office at the University of Waikato and am now back in Auckland. When I was passing the photo wall in the...
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The Annotated Arabian Nights
Yasmine Seale, trans.: The Annotated Arabian Nights. Ed. Paulo Lemos Horta (2021) A new translation of the Thousand and One Nights can be quite a hard sell. You'll note that I've listed some 27 of them...
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Finds: A Japanese Doll
Yaegaki-hime doll (purchased 7/4/24)photograph by Bronwyn Lloyd This doll, which I found a few days ago in a Vintage shop, is clearly a rather distressed version of the one in the auctioneer's picture...
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Judge Dee
Judge Dee's Mystery (2024) It's hard to imagine any TV show being much more enjoyable than the latest Chinese adaptation of Robert van Gulik's "Judge Dee" mysteries. I strayed on it accidentally on...
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Idle Days
Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau: Idle Days (2018)Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau. Idle Days. Art by Simon Leclerc. First Second. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2018. A long time ago now - has it really been...
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The Other Side
Alfred Kubin: Illustration for Die andere Seite (1908) I picked up a hardback copy of this fascinating novel in a Hospice Shop the other day:Alfred Kubin: The Other Side (1969) To be perfectly honest,...
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SF Luminaries: Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (2005) My PhD supervisor at the University of Edinburgh, Colin Manlove, a noted authority on Fantasy and SF, once told me that Robert Silverberg was his favourite writer in the genre,...
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Memories of Gilbert & Sullivan
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe (1882) Between 1976 and 1978, I was in the cast - that is to say, the chorus - of three Gilbert & Sullivan productions at my old High School, Rangitoto College....
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Freud's Last Session
Matthew Brown, dir. Freud's Last Session (2024) When there are so many we shall have to mourn, when grief has been made so public, and exposedto the critique of a whole epochthe frailty of our...
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Auden's Elegies of Exile
W. H. Auden: Another Time (1940)In 1819, John Keats composed six odes, which are among his most famous and well-regarded poems. Keats wrote the first five poems, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on...
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My new book Haunts is available today!
Unpacking Copies of Haunts (27/6/24)[photograph: Bronwyn Lloyd The official publication date for my new collection of short stories, Haunts, is today, Monday 1st July, 2024.Cover image: Graham Fletcher...
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Must We Burn Alice Munro?
Simone de Beauvoir: Faut-il brûler Sade ? (1951) I wrote a post about the Chinoiserie-inflected "Kai Lung" stories of English writer Ernest Bramah a year or so ago. In it, I mentioned Simone de...
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Operation Mincemeat
John Madden, dir. Operation Mincemeat (2021) How was it John Lennon put it in "A Day in the Life" (1967)? I saw a film today, oh boy The English Army had just won the war A crowd of people turned away...
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SF Luminaries: Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick: The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1960 / 1984) Shortly after his death in 1982, a new and unexpected aspect of Philip K. Dick's talent began to appear. And no, I don't mean...
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2,000,000+ Hits!
2,000,110 Pageviews (5/8/2024) I wrote a post a little over five years ago about breaking the million hit barrier on this blog. I'm glad to see that the traffic must have more than doubled over this...
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The Antikythera Conundrum
Jo Marchant: Decoding the Heavens (2008)Jo Marchant. Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer. 2008. Windmill Books. London: The Random House Group Limited, 2009. The...
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Byzantium
San Vitale, Ravenna: The Emperor Justinian and his Court (c. 547 CE)The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great...
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6X10 Poetry Event, Avondale 28/9/24 @ 7 for 7.30 pm
Whau Arts Festival (21 September - 3 October 2020)•Whau Arts Festival6X10 Poetry EventAll Goods Community Arts Space 99 Rosebank Road, Avondale (Behind the Public Library) MC: Bronwyn BentWhau The...
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HAUNTS Launch / Emma Smith Exhibition - 5-6/10/24
Emma Smith: "The second sun" (The Municipal Gardens, 2024)[images courtesy of the artist]Bronwyn Lloyd will be hosting an exhibition of recent paintings by Emma Smith at 6 Hastings Road Mairangi Bay,...
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The Bounty Mythos
Nordhoff & Hall: The Bounty Trilogy (1982)Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall: The Bounty Trilogy: Comprising the Three Volumes Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn’s Island....
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