Arts & Music
Arts The Great MacTavish by Francesca Horsley
Shona Dunlop MacTavish – choreographer, dance teacher, author, New Zealand’s indisputable grand dame of dance – is 83...Theatre They’re selling postcards of a hanging by Harry Ricketts
It's hard to resist a play that opens with “Desolation Row”, Bob Dylan’s great hymn of witty despair...Theatre Jean, Kim and Amiria by Faith Oxenbridge
In his 1940s classic The Maids, Jean Genet, absurdist playwright and patron of the marginalised and dispossessed, concocts an atmosphere...Music Found highways by Nick Bollinger
The closing months of 2003 saw the release of no fewer than three new albums by Ryan Adams...Art Customary rights in Southland by Richard Dingwall
Why does Marilynn Webb exhibit at the Otago Museum rather than in a major art gallery? It’s true that landscape...
Books
Publish and be praised by Nancy Cawley
Dunedin, 1994. Three pushy women editors in a prestigious printing and publishing firm are plotting a coup...Matthew Pearl and the devil himself by Catherine Chidgey
As that manly voice behind every American film trailer might intone, The Dante Club is based on actual historical events...Announcing the arrival of Jhumpa Lahiri by Paula Morris
A young man called Ashoke Ganguli leaves Calcutta to visit his grand-father in another city, and ends up half-dead in...Is Toni Morrison a genius? by Anna Smaill
Toni Morrison's Love overlaps voices and floats between the past and present, but all stories eventually lead to Bill Cosey,...Douglas Coupland’s apocalyptic millennium blues by Rachael King
At the risk of making a self-fulfilling point, Douglas Coupland and the word “zeitgeist” are never far from each other...The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox by Terry Snow
Linger on the lolloping, ululating, larrikin, lyrical, lambent loveliness in the letter “L”...
