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    Setting out for the summit

    Apr 01, 2024 3 minutes

    THE BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON

    by Airini Beautrais

    (Te Herenga Waka University Press)

    “They reference widely, from Lord Byron to Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde to Mary Woolstonecraft, The Little Mermaid to the Waitangi Tribunal.

    Airini Beautrais is best known for her award-winning collection of short stories, in which her deadpan style delivers strangely intense and unexpected developments. In a book of personal essays, a similar method seems to be at play. Beautrais is conversational, discursive about her life and her research,

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