Andrew DeanAndrew Dean

Andrew Dean is a Junior Research Fellow at University College London. His book, Metafiction and the Postwar Novel, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He is also the author of a book about New Zealand’s economic reform period, Ruth, Roger and Me (BWB 2015).

The Catton conundrum: What attacks on the novelist say about public debate in NZ

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Sean Plunket’s “hua” diatribe was symptomatic of widespread silencing of dissent. But the Booker-winning novelist’s exhortation to “eloquence, imagination, and reasoned debate” shows the debate isn’t over yet, writes Andrew Dean in this extract from The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand Giveaway: The Spinoff has two copies of The Interregnum to give away, courtesey of Bridget … Read more