EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).02 Mar 01:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Remember Nothing And Other Reflections</i>For women of a certain (or uncertain) age, remembering nothing is not difficult. Remembering something is more problematic. Thus, women of a certain age will be enchanted by Nora Ephron's take on memory, or lack of it.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Of Love And Evil</i>Confession time: I'd never read anything by Anne Rice before this. For a while, I thought she was another name for Stephenie Meyer. She's not (of course), but she could be.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Rose</i>I began this book when a William Lobb rose was in its first flowering in my garden. Every time I went out to get the mail the perfume hung in the air and I breathed it in and felt good about being alive.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Sourland</i>It's been six months since the last Joyce Carol Oates, so it's not surprising to find she has another book out. Her productivity is astonishing, she's Barbara Cartland in black instead of pink.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Dolci Di Love</i>Lynch fans will delight in her latest offering of love and heartache in the Italian hills. Sarah-Kate Lynch even helped smooth the reviewer's own path to love.27 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentFilm bible packs a real punchDavid Larsen talks to career film buff David Thomson about his revised classic.24 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Listen To This</i>One of the many funny lines in the profanity-strewn satirical film In The Loop came from the character Jamie Macdonald, the senior press officer in 10 Downing St and the "angriest man in Scotland".23 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra <i>at Auckland Town Hall</i>20 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleDesert living inspires photographerA photo exhibition about flowers is the result of a life-changing experience for Joanne Cunningham.17 Feb 09:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill Cone<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: This bookworm is turningSure, books are one of life's pleasures, but who said every kid has to love reading?17 Feb 08:30 PM
LifestyleHave we lost the art of writing love letters?In a week when one billion Valentine's Day cards are sent worldwide, we might wonder where the tradition of the passionate avowal came from.15 Feb 11:48 PM
EntertainmentWriter keen to acknowledge inner strengthHaving led a lonely childhood, Lesley Pearse knows what it is to seek a better life. Now she is helping women to help others. She tells Stephen Jewell how.14 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>We Had It So Good</i>Here's a story about how to become middle-aged and middle-class - without noticing it.13 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Dan ShananDan Shanan is a trustee of the Documentary Edge Festival.13 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>A Man Melting</i>Craig Cliff's first collection of stories heralds the arrival of an electrifying new voice on the New Zealand writing scene. These stories are standalone gems, but the collection also brings together satisfying harmonies as a whole.07 Feb 04:00 PM
EntertainmentThe joy of hassling her own heroineKiwi crime queen Vanda Symon talks to Craig Sisterson about accidental heroines and playing with swords.07 Feb 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Crime</i>There's the boy who kills sheep and gouges out their eyes. There's the young man who wishes literally to eat his girlfriend but who angrily denies he is a Hannibal Lecter figure.07 Feb 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Last Night in Twisted River</i>John Irving is the king of the long, multilayered novel. In the tradition of Dickens, he cleverly weaves together the intricate threads of cross-generational storylines.07 Feb 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>More Than You Can Say</i>Paul Torday produces an intriguing page-turner that won't fail to surprise.06 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Windup Girl</i>This work of speculative fiction arrives on New Zealand shelves with the degree of hype usually reserved for angst-ridden teen vamps or boy wizards.06 Feb 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook watch: <i>The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet</i>Graham Beattie reveals his top pick of his past month's reading.06 Feb 04:00 PM
