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Philip Matthews

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Christchurch
As seen in: The Press (New Zealand), Stuff.co.nz, Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand Listener, Lexology, The Spinoff, Mondaq, Senses of Cinema, The Post (Wellington), Te Ao - Māori News
Senior journalist with The Press. Author of THE QUIET HERO (Allen & Unwin, 2023). Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). These opinions are my own.
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The Clean: in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul by Richard Langston A story of psychedelia, darkness and being artists outsiders 'in a country that didn’t always embrace them'.

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| nzreviewofbooks.com
Auckland University Press published three books between 2022 and 2026 that combine to form a detailed picture of an exciting and still unparalleled era in New Zealand rock music. Call that era the Flying Nun years.
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The past and future of The Press

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| The Post (Wellington)
The Press can be read on a desktop and a mobile phone, as well as in print.Peter Meecham / The Press As The Press turns 165, PHILIP MATTHEWS finds there is still enormous demand for local journalism and new ways to deliver it. The scene was London in the 1990s, in a newspaper office on Leigham Court Rd. An object appeared in the newsroom like a visitor from the future. What was it? It was a computer that could access the internet.
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Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century by Steve Braunias

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| nzreviewofbooks.com
The last time a book by Steve Braunias was reviewed at this website, a mere 10 months ago, Guy Somerset wondered if Braunias could escape the clutches of crime. Somerset sounded doubtful, and he had good reason to doubt. At the time, Braunias was deep into his long, gripping and idiosyncratic dispatches from the Philip Polkinghorne trial, published daily in the NZ Herald. He was clearly absorbed, just as his many readers were. Could he really call time on his true-crime series, as he had promised?
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