Arts & Music
Arts Encore by Dean Parker
I have a friend who used to run a second-hand bookshop in the city...Film Vague as fog and looked for like mail by Philip Matthews
In an early scene in Sylvia, the poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig) reads to the cows from a boat on...Music The Manchester United of drum’n’bass by Jim Pinckney
Since lighting a fire under the drum’n’bass world with his 1995 classic “Super Sharp Shooter”, DJ Zinc has maintained a...Classical Birds suddenly appear by Ian Dando
From the early 1980s, Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns have toured marae in their quest for a renaissance of indigenous...
Books
Our first great wretch by Steve Braunias
FITZROY: The remarkable story of Darwin’s captain and the invention of the weather forecast, by John and Mary Gribbin (Review,...If it’s Tuesday, it must be Chechnya by Tze Ming Mok
To travel writers, nothing is merely real in foreign parts; all is symbolism...He ain’t heavy, he's my Buddha by Joanna Nathan
*TIBET, TIBET, by Patrick French (Harper Collins, $34.99). At 16 Patrick French wanted to save the world...Zen and the art of motorcycle enterprise by Bruce Ansley
JOHN BRITTEN, by Tim Hanna (Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95). Tim Hanna's experience of a legend is byzantine...Teebiscuit by Roy Colbert
THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, by Mark Frost (Penguin, $29.95)...
