Jackson McCarthy

They Got It Right This Year (Almost)! Ah, the Ockhams. Or, as Susanna Andrew coined last year, the “Shock-’ems”! Her point was not just that there’s something a little weird and very milk-loving-Briscoes-sale-deck-furniture-Kiwi about our national book awards being sponsored by a massive construction company. Nor was it just that her pick for the fiction award didn’t make the shortlist—though that was true, too. She also thought that, in an industry as small as New Zealand books, it was so...

Salient Celebrates New Zealand Music Month! Vera Ellen: HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT TIME Happy New Zealand Music Month, bitches! While all you caffeine-addicted trackie-wearing zombies file in and out of your Maclaurin lecture theatres, ears stuffed full of musical garbage, just know that somewhere in the crowd I’ll be there with my dad’s vintage Workshop jeans and my Vera Ellen tunes. One decaf flat white, please! Just kidding! I’ve relapsed on caffeine, of course. But I still do my best to listen...

Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns How The Devil Wears Prada 2 undoes the brilliance of its predecessor Spoilers ahead. The year is 2006. Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep)—tyrannical Editor-in-Chief of major fashion magazine, Runway—turns and enters a car. Her former assistant, Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), waves from across the street. We cut to Miranda inside the car: over her face, the passenger seat window reflects the highrise building in which her offices are housed. We get the memo:...