Jeremy Rees

Oct 20, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Jeremy Rees

Anne Micheals' novel Held has been short-listed for the Booker Prize. Photos / supplied Book review: Held opens with a wounded soldier on a World War I battlefield. He is moving in and out of consciousness, drifting back to his ancestors, fishers who stitched deliberate mistakes into their ganseys (jerseys) so people lost at sea could be identified and returned to their family. He remembers meeting his artist wife, Helena, who seeks warmth in a pub after getting off at the wrong train station.

Oct 1, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Rees

Analysis - Vice-presidential debates are the under-card of US election discussions. Except, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris running so close in the presidential elections, every debate could have significance. So, it was when Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris' running mate, met Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump's pick, this afternoon in a surprisingly cordial debate, focused mainly on the issues, but one which also revealed differences between the two camps. Here's seven things to know.

Sep 16, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Rees

James, the retelling of the story of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim the slave, and a spy novel about eco-anarchists are probably the frontrunners for the Booker Prize after the judges announced an unusual and surprising shortlist. For the first time in its 55 years, the award has five of its six shortlisted books written by women. It is now five years since a female novelist won the Booker despite one of the judges, Sara Collins, saying that much publishing is dominated by women.

Jul 19, 2024 | community.scoop.co.nz | Jeremy Rees

Article – RNZMichiko Kakutani’s The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider reads like a synthesis of modern maladies with few solutions offered, Jeremy Rees writes.Jeremy Rees, Executive editor of business, economics, sport and ruralThe arrival of the Gutenberg printing press in the late Middle Ages may have been good for literacy, but it was bad for witches.

Jul 17, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Rees

Ian Johnson's 2017 book, The Souls of China; The Return of Religion after Mao, is often cited as one of the best books on modern China. Johnson found a yearning for spiritual belief in a China run by the Communist Party. His new book, Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, is equally as good. Like Souls, it approaches modern China at an oblique angle, investigating what at first seems insubstantial but, by the end, feels a significant moral challenge to the Party.