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The Theory of Light and Matter - Andrew Porter

Posted 2:20am Monday 10th May 2010 by Anne Ford

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company (3.5/5)   Andrew Porter’s debut collection of short stories won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in the United States. Written from different perspectives, including male and female, young and old, rural and urban, Read more...

The Group - Mary McCarthy

Posted 2:16am Monday 10th May 2010 by Kathy Young

Publisher: Hachette (4.5/5)   I’ve got to admit, first of all, to being a big Sex in the City fan. So, I was pleased to see Candace Bushnell’s introduction of this newly re-released version of a classic, dare I say, feminist novel first published in 1964. It spent two Read more...

Strangers in Death - J. D. Robb

Posted 2:15am Monday 10th May 2010 by Sue Hui Ong

Publisher: Piatkus (5/5)   Strangers in Death is the first book in a long time that has hooked me into reading it nonstop, compelling me to avoid other tasks just to satisfy my curiosity. I was intrigued to read my first futuristic crime novel (being an avid Poirot fan) and I was not Read more...

Science vs. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution - Steve Fuller

Posted 2:06am Monday 10th May 2010 by Caitlyn O’Fallon

(1/5)   In light of Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss’ visits here, it seemed appropriate to critically evaluate some putatively rigorous work by dissenting voices. In Science vs. Religion? Fuller argues for “the centrality of intelligent design in motivating the scientific Read more...

Wayne Barrar - An Expanding Subterra

Posted 1:50am Monday 10th May 2010 by April Dell

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Until Sunday June 27 An Expanding Subterra is a photographic investigation into the private spaces of artificial underground worlds. This collection of works from Barrar’s seven-year international project presents a bizarre and unsettling subterranean existence Read more...