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).