Redmer Yska

Guest writer

Writer and historian Redmer Yska has written across a range of subjects including post-war teenagers, Dutch New Zealanders, Wellington and a history of NZ Truth. His latest book A Strange Beautiful Excitement was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Image: Archi Banal

‘The woman in her cage’: Mansfield in Paris

Redmer Yska visits the Parisian apartment where Katherine Mansfield recovered from the 'Spanish flu' a century ago.

By Redmer Yska | 9th July, 2023

(Image: Leonie Hayden)

Remembering New Zealand’s gossipiest newspaper

Redmer Yska remembers when the government banished divorce-court gossip from New Zealand's newspapers.

By Redmer Yska | 17th June, 2021

Anna Chrichton

The Sunday Essay: Arthur Conan Doyle’s conversations with the dead, New Zealand, 1920

Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, the author focused on the spirit world. In Christchurch, he met a psychic dog.

By Redmer Yska | 30th May, 2021