Arts & Music
Arts Only in Wellington by Michael Norris
We cross live to Newtown, and to downtown Wellington, for a programme of experimental music.Music September when it came by Nick Bollinger
Johnny Cash was a giant and his recent death casts a long black shadow over the world of music...Art Take off your clothes by Jon Bywater
“It may be that I was just attracted to this huge bright vagina,” curator/judge Tobias Berger has said of his...Film The Italian leg by Helene Wong
The comedy hit of last year's Italian Film Festival returns on general release as a warm-up for this year’s (which...
Books
The debutante by Tim Wilson
We cross live to New York City, for an audience with Indian-English novelist Monica Ali – an overnight sensation even before her first book was published, and now an odds-on favourite to win this year’s Man Booker Prize.He's ever such a good friend to Iris by Marion McLeod
In 1988 an editor at Hutchinson rang to see if Andrew Wilson would be interested in writing Iris Murdoch’s biography...New Zealand books: new and noted by Steve Braunias
This really happened. “After Da-Jei walked in, he slammed the front door very quickly, then forced her into a dark...The tyrant of cool by R Carl Shuker
Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, $59.95). It is the fork in the path when writer number two attempts...Men in white by Harry Ricketts
Indian cricket began (for me) with the 1961-62 tour by the MCC...Pond woebegone by Jane Hurley
It's not often you come across a novel that truly is, as they say, deeply shallow – but in Look...Portrait of a (mad) lady by David Larsen
THE PORTRAIT OF MRS CHARBUQUE, by Jeffrey Ford (Tor, $37.95).Let us now praise Edith by Julia Millen
Who is G B Lancaster? In the early 20th century this prolific New Zealand author’s identity was a mystery...A killing in Israel by Mark Peters
In an interview with the trans-atlantic Jewish paper Aufbau, journalist Igal Sarna compared the ordeal of having to select 14...A killing in Utah by Kathy Young
God, it seems, isn't content to just give orders; He is specific about the technicalities...
