Arts & Music
Arts & Music Poem: Up North by Bob Orr
The Shell service station’s neon fossil the streets of for sale signs the billionaire’s gulf club...Arts & Music Irrepressibly versatile by Rod Biss
David Farquhar, 1928-2007Arts & Music From bard to worse by Denis Welch
Almost lost in last month’s Budget was the thrilling news that New Zealand is finally to get its own official...Arts & Music Long view by Aaron Kreisler
**LAURENCE ABERHART, City Gallery, Wellington, until July 29. **Arts & Music Rhythmically savage by Ian Dando
GINASTERA COMPLETE PIANO AND ORGAN MUSIC. FERNANDO VIANI. Naxos 8.557911-12. 2 CDs...Arts & Music Holy Hollie by Nick Bollinger
**LONG PLAYER, Hollie Smith (EMI).**
**DAWN PLANES, Lucid 3 (Capitol/Lupin).**Arts & Music Are you old enough? by Philip Matthews
We all know that male sex tourists are evil, but what about the female of the species? Laurent Cantet’s cold,...Arts & Music Swan files high by Francesca Horsley
**SWAN LAKE, Royal New Zealand Ballet, St James, Wellington (touring nationally until June 30). **
Books
Books Boy at the window by Philip Matthews
Tim Winton still has life in his sights.Books Taken up by Denis Welch
Kate Grenville finds her ancestors on a fictional journey into Australia’s heart of darknessBooks War in the heart by Sarah Quigley
An acclaimed new novel revisits a bloody chapter in Nigerian history.Books Cold ghosts by Hugh Roberts
The “Artists to Antarctica” programme is one of those ideas so inherently loopy (Survivor: Artist Edition) that it could hardly...Books Things do not stop by Elizabeth Smither
**BOY IN THE WORLD, by Niall Williams (HarperCollins, $34.99).**Books Out of China by Kevin Rabalais
Three recent books by female Chinese writers – two novels and one story collection – provide us with a diverse...Arts & Music Enlarging the world by Rod Biss
The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was even more than its name suggested – it should have had Musicians and...Arts & Music Shock of the new by Ian Dando
How to make a rod for your own back: tour a programme that has four new works and only one...
