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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

November 29-December 5 2003 Vol 191 No 3316

Arts & Music

  • Arts Animal, 62 by John Dix
    Three days, not entirely stoned, in the life of rock survivor Eric Burdon.

  • Music You in my brain, you in my heart by Nick Bollinger
    It's nearly 10 years since Hello Sailor last recorded; nearer to 20 since Dave McArtney released anything under his own...

  • Art Bloody vandals by Jon Bywater
    Girls with their knicker showing, star-throwing Ninjas, jagged or sweeping tangled 3D hip-hop lettering – the visual flurry of Subliminal...

  • Film Play wistful for me by Helene Wong
    Clint Eastwood has been here before. His 1993 revisionist western Unforgiven examined the nature of violence and its effect on...


Books

  • The second man by Steve Braunias
    Only a few months ago, Peter Bland wrote a poem that he believes will probably be his last...

  • New Zealand fiction The fruit and veg chronicles by Charlotte Grimshaw
    SONGS FROM THE VIOLET CAFÉ, by Fiona Kidman, (Vintage, $26.95)...

  • And love blooms at 59 Tinakori Rd. by Paula Morris
    Wellington writer Barbara Anderson’s novel Change of Heart is the story of Oliver Gurth Perkins, an elderly dentist with an...