The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016

This collection of provocative, impassioned essays about hot New Zealand issues by smart New Zealand thinkers will tune up your intellectual engine. Featuring writing by: Dan Salmon on tuna ΓÇó Paul McDonald on the places youΓÇÖll go ΓÇó Mike Joy on river radicalism ΓÇó David Hall on green growth ΓÇó James Chapman and William Tunmer on why kids canΓÇÖt read ΓÇó Wayne Barrar on diatoms ΓÇó Ridvan Firestone on obesity ΓÇó Mike Grimshaw on Christchurch ΓÇó Richard Shaw on why the kids donΓÇÖt vote ΓÇó Kerry Taylor on spies ΓÇó Claire Robinson on grey hair ΓÇó Peter Meihana on M─üori privilege ΓÇó Krushil Watene on water ownership ΓÇó Jeff McNeill on Messines ΓÇó Chris Gallavin on murder ΓÇó Teena Brown Pulu on being Pasifika and M─üori ΓÇó Jarrod Gilbert on gangs, lies and statistics ΓÇó Paula Morris on a road-end in Denmark ΓÇó Paul Thomas on shallowness ΓÇó David Slack on the melancholy of fifty-something.