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Gail Bell
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Gail Bell | The Nation Reviewed | March 2010 | Society & Culture
This time last year, I roamed through the over-furnished rooms of Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace house in Tinakori Road, Te Puakitanga, Wellington. Whenever I enter into one of these strange transactions I wonder what is missing in me, or perhaps slightly askew, that I must tramp to the author’s...
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Gail Bell | The Nation Reviewed | November 2009 | Society & Culture
One year, in the middle of December, I received an unexpected Christmas card. Inside, the message read: “Felix and I are both marvellously well. All his former medical issues are now settled with diet and Alexander Technique. Felix felt you would want to know. Kind Regards, Marjorie.” I squinted at...
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Gail Bell | The Nation Reviewed | August 2009 | Society & Culture
When Michael Jackson’s heart stopped beating on 25 June, he was lean, only 50 years old, and sufficiently fit to lay down enough of his trademark stage moves to refute rumours about advanced physical deterioration. Even before the first ambiguous cause-of-death reports hit the headlines, we caught...
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Gail Bell | April 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Society & Culture
I came to know Eddie at second hand, through my husband. There was much to love about Eddie, and much to wonder about. I knew he had a liver disease aggravated by decades of drinking and yet persisted with his haphazard lifestyle. He still smoked tobacco, still liked a joint in the mellow afternoon...
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Gail Bell | The Nation Reviewed | October 2008 | Society & Culture
For nearly 15 years, on the Monday nights I'm in town I've driven to a house at a nearby beach where a group of people (all women, although we've had men in the past) meet to read Shakespeare. At least five times in the cycle of tragedies we've tackled Macbeth, and when its time...
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Gail Bell | The Monthly Essays | April 2008 | Society & Culture
In my experience, most people needing sinus tablets take the identification requirement on the chin. It's an ID-dependent world now: you have to prove who you are at the video shop, the bank, the Medicare counter, and even at schools when you're the aunt collecting the child on the mother...
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Ray Moynihan has been pursuing the pharmaceutical giants for more than a decade, first with his TV series and book Too Much Medicine? and now – in collaboration with Canadian researcher Alan Cassels – in a new assault that might just draw blood. In Selling Sickness he lets loose a fresh pack of...
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