Arts & Music
Culture Family & other animals by Anthony Byrt
MOTHER’S MILK, by Edward St Aubyn (Picador, $28)Art The art of Cry Slur by Tessa Laird
TOM KREISLER, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (until May 13)Culture Vulture Geez, Wayne by Denis Welch
“Always ask, at all levels, how would this sound in court?”Film War in a cold climate by Helene Wong
DRIVING LESSONS, directed by Jeremy Brock
LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL, Rialto, Wellington, April 19-25; Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch to followMusic Where was opera? by Rod Biss
Classical music in AK07 had its own festival flavour; the performers were often familiar but what they played was mostly different.Music Getting older by Roy Colbert
David Kilgour and Professor Tim Hazledine at the same event? It must be a Dunedin Sound reunion.Theatre Dusty maidens by Faith Oxenbridge
Pass round the cigars – the Fortune’s first successful delivery for 2007 is The Clean House.
Books
That thinking feeling by Philip Matthews
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand, edited by Laurence Simmons (Auckland University Press, $45)Dreamland by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
FIX: THE ART & LIFE OF FELIX KELLY, by Donald Bassett (Darrow Press, $75)My Manhattan by Jolisa Gracewood
TRENDY BUT CASUAL, by Paula Morris (Penguin, $28)Internal exile by Sam Finnemore
THE SOLITUDE OF THOMAS CAVE, Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury, $35)Banks notes by David Larsen
THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE, by Iain Banks (Little, Brown, $36.99)Young in parts by David Hill
HIDEOUT (Longacre, $18.99)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF MINNA HARGREAVES (Random House, $19.99) and more...
