TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
HERE AND NOW, No. 1. October, 1949. 2/-. {tT recently became known, amid sounds of suppressed excitement from Auckland, that a new monthly journal was being planned. Now it is here, and if it is not received everywhere with full enthusiasm it will at least have the goodwill of people who believe that there is much room in New Zealand for independent writing. More than a first issue may be needed before the value of the journal can be judged. The intention apparently is to develop the idea of an open forum. "We hope in future issues," says the editorial in phrases which, as on so many other pages, have a strong tincture of Mr. Fairburn, "to publish articles by Nationalists and Labour Party supporters, Roman Catholics and atheists, prohibitionists and alcoholics, pacifists and militarists, voluptuaries and ascetics, the saved and the damned .. ." This declaration may express good intentions, but the cautious reader may wonder if discussion for its own sake can be a sufficient reason for publication. Papers which have long and healthy lives usually stand for something defia-ite-something that can be supported or, opposed with equal fervour. A corres- pondent seems to have made this point in a letter to the Editor: "I think a magazine should have its core somewhere, in literature, or politics, or some special interest or idea and expand from that core. Otherwise you get a digest." If there is a core, it is not yet visible, though it may begin to appear in later numbers. In the meantime the production has a strong flavour of Auckland, a flavour which may or may not recom‘mend it to readers who live in less fortunate parts of the country. The first issue has some bright writing, though the desire to be provocative is perhaps a little noticeable. And the proof-read-ing is not as good as it should be in a periodical which is to come out only ance a month. Nevertheless, readers will look forward with interest to the next appearance. In spite of the name given to the infant, which could be taken as a challenge to the fates that in the past have cruelly interfered with such ventures, it is to be hoped that Here and Now will be with us tomorrow-even until the fourth issue, when contributions will be "paid for on acceptance."
M.H.
H.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 17
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