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Slutwalk and Hijab
An interview Professor Leila Ahmed of Harvard Divinity School
Why The Long Face ?
Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, and the controversy about slow cinema
Left Coasting: Robbin’ the Hood
California’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket
From the Hood: Sestina SIStina Barcelona
The art of spying, dying and versifying
The Complicatist: Love and Mining Disasters
The Complicatist : Love and Mining Disasters
Classics : The Graveyard Book (2009)
Neil Gaiman’s brand of horror lite is aimed at parents, as much as kids
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 24, June 2011 * * * * *
The June / July 2011 Edition of Werewolf
On Barack Obama’s debt deal
If nothing else, Barack Obama’s tactics during the debt ceiling crisis have clarified how he plans to run for President next year: not as a […]
On the Lieutenant O’Donnell inquiry
The New Zealand Defence Force never ceases to amaze. Yesterday’s report into the death last year in Afghanistan of Lieutenant Tim O’Donnell has found shortcomings […]
On the Norway massacre
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com As the work of a homegrown right wing dissident, the Norway massacre clearly has more in common with the […]
On the SAS defence of Afghanistan’s drug barons
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com A typical day at the office for the New Zealand forces in Afghanistan. On one hand, we passed the […]
On Labour’s tax package (and Rupert Murdoch)
There could hardly have been a better set of Dom-Post headlines yesterday – Fruit and Vege Prices Rocket / Healthy Choices Off The Menu As […]
On Don Brash’s race gambit (and Hugh Grant’s finest hour)
It must have been a grim moment indeed in the Act Party offices when the Resurrection of Orewa went up on the whiteboard as the […]
On the capital gains tax debate
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com The fact that, at last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital […]
On the bailout in Greece
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Evidently, the recent attempt by EMA boss Alisdair Thompson to justify the gender pay gap has been just the […]
On National’s neglect of the armed forces
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Only a National government could get away with the changes in the New Zealand Defence Force now taking place […]
The case for corporate reform
An interview with business analyst Rod Oram
Living With the Cost of Prolonging Life
The health system is facing some important life and death decisions
Opening the floodgates to tax fraud
Is the most significant change in property law in decades slipping through Parliament virtually unnoticed
Cartoon Alley : Tintin in Wellywood
In anticipation of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of Unicorn due December 2011
Frank Gehry and the Lost Vision for Te Papa
An interview with Wellington architect Ian Athfield about the other design for our national museum
Letter from America : Sarah, Forever
Outrage at Sarah Palin is gasoline to a forest fire….
Taxi Driver at 35
In the 1970s, New York (and Martin Scorsese) were a lot sleazier and scarier…
Farming’s Big Day Out
At Mystery Creek, agri-business comes out to play…
From the Hood : The Antipodean Nights’ Entertainments
Like 1001 nights in the Caliphate of Key…
Left Coasting : Doing the Charleston
In which our correspondent shares a multimedia experience of Charleston, South Carolina
Milestone Movies : Nanook of the North (1922)
The birth of documentaries as real life fictions…
The Complicatist : Thinking About Modest Mouse
Desperation has its funnier moments
Talking Sport : Stanley Cup Fever
On and off the field