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James Pasley

Guest writer

James Pasley has an MA from the IIML. His writing and reporting has appeared in Landfall, Takahe, Turbine | Kapohau, Vice News, the Sunday Star-Times and Business Insider.

The Sunday Essay: The books that electrify and consume you

The Sunday Essay: The books that electrify and consume you

I didn’t know books could open you back up; that reading could be a chemical event. I knew nothing.

By James Pasley | 4th May, 2024

Illustration: Eddie Monotone

The Sunday Essay: If I don’t make it

If I do have to die in a plane crash, something I think about fairly often, I would rather plummet into land than sea.

By James Pasley | 16th October, 2022

These dogs need to keep their distance. Photo: Getty Images

Don’t let Auckland go to the dogs

A recent Spinoff column argued that Auckland's dog laws are overly restrictive, and only set to get worse under proposed new bylaws. Nonsense, writes James Parsely.

By James Pasley | 4th May, 2019