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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

November 3-9 2007 Vol 211 No 3521

Arts & Music

  • Culture Close call by Tim Watkin
    DAMAGES, TV1, Wednesdays, 8.30pm.

  • Theatre Gee Hong’s war by Imogen Neale
    How a Chinese play helped the New Zealand war effort in Auckland, 1945.

  • Culture Vulture Prizeless publicity by Denis Welch
    The vulture is back. Back from an intensive three-week Creative New Zealand training camp deep in the Ureweras, where participants...

  • Film Still life with Edith by Helene Wong
    EDITH COLLIER: A LIGHT AMONG SHADOWS, directed by Michael Heath, Academy Cinema, Auckland.
    EVENING, directed by Lajos Koltai.

  • Art Lost arts by Andrew Paul Wood
    TRUTH + BEAUTY, Peter James Smith, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, until November 3.
    SPECTRE ECHO LANDFALL, Nathan Pohio, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, until November 4.

  • Theatre Bringing it all back home by Harry Ricketts
    HOME LAND, by Gary Henderson; directed by Jane Waddell, Circa, Wellington, until 10 November.

  • Theatre The Glass Menagerie by Faith Oxenbridge
    The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Sue Rider. Court Two: October 20 – November 15


Books

  • Books Life is just this way by Jolisa Gracewood
    NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU, by Miranda July (Text, $23.95).

  • Books The postmodern sage by David Groves
    OTHER COLOURS: Essays and a Story, by Orhan Pamuk (Faber, $55).

  • Books The eloquent blogger by David Eggleton
    DIARY OF A BAD YEAR, by J M Coetzee (Text Publishing, $49.95).

  • Books Immigrant song by Gilbert Wong
    ZENGCHENG NEW ZEALANDERS, edited by Henry Chan (Tung Jung Association, $39.95).

  • Books Kids’ non-fiction by David Larsen
    YES, IT’S TIME for the children’s adaptation of the book of the film: Al Gore has AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (Bloomsbury,...

  • Books apocalypse.com by Martin Hirst
    THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, by Andrew Keen (Nicholas Brealey, $39.99).