Arts & Music
Culture Bono & me by David Cohen
How long, how long must they sing this song?Art Inorganic collections by Tessa Laird
Auckland’s young generation of rampant maximalists.Dance Puce moments by Francesca Horsley
An Auckland wedding and a Wellington lament.DVDs He said, she said by Chris Knox
Including Oleanna & My Darling Clementine.Film In hot blood by Helene Wong
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, directed by David Cronenberg.
THREE DOLLARS, directed by Robert Connolly.Music A knight at the opera by Rod Biss
Richard Wagner and the Holy Grail: described by Debussy as “incomparable”, Wagner’s Parsifal finally has its New Zealand premiere.Music Planet Balkan by Garth Cartwright
In search of Gypsy music.Theatre The trouble with Hector by Harry Ricketts
Alan Bennett’s latest hit The History Boys is set in the 1980s.
Books
Fed as the spirits are fed by Siobhan Harvey
Louise Erdrich’s new novel, The Painted Drum, is her best yet.America the terrorist by David Larsen
Who is more dangerous: al-Qaeda or the American neo-conservatives?It was in that house by Prue Donald
Loosely based on Renée’s life story, Kissing Shadows is an unsentimental unravelling of a family history in the search for the cause of a young father’s suicide.
