Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff, Toby Manhire on Chris Hipkins’ policy purge and the “cost-of-explaining crisis”, Alex Casey on the big changes coming to the old-school smear test this year and Chris Schulz on the end of rampant Netflix password sharing. But first, Claire Mabey reviews Eleanor Catton’s new novel Birnam Wood.
“The deftness with which Catton’s third book – coming 10 years after The Luminaries won the Booker Prize – plunges us into the calamitous depths of our nature is freshly astonishing. When I began reading Birnam Wood I started to asterisk sentences that stood out to me as leggy, multi-parenthetic, joyrides of perfection. After the first few pages I realised that the book would soon become a constellation of blazing stars. Catton’s prose brings to mind Austen and Woolf and Mantel. She is among that echelon of literary mastery. Her sentences are the stuff of dreams: of ten-course degustations that give you the satisfaction of home cooking at its finest.”
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The new Eleanor Catton is out today. Is it any good?
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