Arts & Music
Culture Daughter of Austria by Ben Naparstek
“I just don’t understand why so much hate is brought against me,” says Elfriede Jelinek, author of The Piano Teacher and a past winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Arts Festival Springtime for Dunedin by Anna Chinn
A diary of last month’s Otago Festival of the Arts.Arts Festival Flicker by David Eggleton
ATHLETES OF THE IMAGINATION, Rialto Theatre, DunedinArt Flowers in the attic by Aaron Kreisler
TOI TE PAPA ART OF THE NATION, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, WellingtonClassical From here by Ian Dando
Including Spirit of the Land & Elgar Orchestral Miniatures.Film The future is not ours by Philip Matthews
CHILDREN OF MEN, directed by Alfonso CuaronMusic The single life by Nick Bollinger
EDIN, Paul McLaney (Loop)Theatre Cheat of the moment by Harry Ricketts
THE UNDERARM, by David Geary and Justin Gregory; directed by Stuart Devenie, Circa Two, Wellington (until November 25)
Books
Expatriate acts by Nicholas Reid
THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS, by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton, $37)New lands by David Larsen
These are the kind of books you digest over an entire childhood, or read with enormous pleasure as an adult.The khan’s wife by Elizabeth Smither
THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, by Stephanie de Montalk (VUP, $29.95)Doctor who? by Louise Wareham
TALK TALK, by T C Boyle (Bloomsbury, $35)Bourgeois Eden by Andrew Paul Wood
JOANNA MARGARET PAUL DRAWING, by Jill Trevelyan and Sarah Treadwell (Auckland University Press/Mahara Gallery, $50)
