Arts & Music
Culture Know your enemy by Roy Colbert
He drove the van, he carried the gear, he was Chris Knox’s punching bag … The Enemy and Toy Love’s biggest fan still thinks they were brilliant. And he’s probably right.Art The island of Dr Braithwaite by Bridie Lonie
Joanna Braithwaite: Wonderland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery.Dance The state of Grace by Francesca Horsley
It was good to see the Black Grace boys again, after a two-year absence from Auckland.Film If I ruled the world by Helene Wong
When friends brought together Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno because they thought they might have something in common, they probably didn’t expect the ensuing partnership to go quite as far as it did.Music When I’m 34 by Nick Bollinger
The fact that Beck now evokes nostalgia is a measure of how swiftly the mainstream flows.Music Yesterday once more by Chris Knox
A Toy Love reunion? Well, everyone else is doing it …Poetry A Trio for All Time by Brian Turner
Milosz was right, and I loved him for it, his conviction that order, rhythm and form...
Books
Masters of war by Ian McGibbon
The battle over Freyberg still rages: did he make “a balls of Crete” or is he “an undiscovered military genius”? A new book argues the latter.Books Boy, man and superman by David Eggleton
Death of a Superhero, by Anthony McCartenFurther adventures by Jennifer Levasseur
Men and Cartoons, by Jonathan LethemHistory in the making by Sally Blundell
How does an Irishman’s sighting of a tomato figure in the grand narrative of New Zealand? History as experienced by “ordinary people” is the focus of Te Ara, the world’s first online national encyclopedia.The other life of Patrick Russ by Hugh Roberts
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, by Nikolai Tolstoy.
