Elizabeth Heritage

Guest writer

Nō Ingarangi aku tīpuna He tangata tiriti ahau I whānau mai au i Tāmaki Makaurau, i te rohe o Ngāti Whātua Ko Waitematā te moana Ko Ōwairaka te maunga Ināianei e noho ana au ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara, i te rohe o Te Āti Awa Ko Elizabeth Heritage taku ingoa

Catherine Chidgey (Photo: Helen Mayall)

The terrible fear of being a bystander: a review of Remote Sympathy

Why we still need novels about the Nazis.

By Elizabeth Heritage | 31st October, 2020

Lockdown, last time, in Christchurch (Photo: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Finding my way home, line by line, with Funkhaus

Hinemoana Baker's collection is poetry for the pandemic-addled brain.

By Elizabeth Heritage | 23rd June, 2020

Fierce fafine at the opening of the exhibition FAT, wearing gowns by fashion label Infamy Apparel. (Photo: Raymond Sagapolutele)

Fat activism in Aotearoa is having a moment

Yes, lockdown might make you fatter – but that’s okay.

By Elizabeth Heritage | 26th April, 2020

Zadie Smith. Photo: Dominique Nabokov

The Smiths, part two: Zadie Smith gets an unfortunate attack of PC-gone-mad hiccups

Elizabeth Heritage drags her feet through Zadie Smith's latest novel, with its constant moralising about racism, sexism, class divides, feminism, religious fundamentalism, poverty etc etc etc.

By Elizabeth Heritage | 15th February, 2017

‘Just wait, you’ll change your mind’ and every other terrible response to my decision not to have children

‘Just wait, you’ll change your mind’ and every other terrible response to my decision not to have children

What is it about being childless by choice that seems to invite everyone you know – and a few you don't – to weigh in? Elizabeth Heritage, for one, has had enough.

By Elizabeth Heritage | 14th October, 2016