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Book Review: <i>Americans in Paris</i>

For historic and emotional reasons many Americans have always had a love affair with France.

Council won't promise on suffrage tiles

Famous names join fight to restore historic theatre

English theatre luminaries Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench are on a heavyweight list of artists and historians calling for the reopening of Auckland's St James Theatre.

Book Review: <i>Psycho Too</i>

Self is a profoundly anti-romantic writer, which is to say that he's a romantic with his back turned and his buttocks bared, so naturally he begs to differ.

Review: This is Where I Leave You

Few books make me laugh out loud but there was a point where I laughed so hard while reading this one I had to put it down.

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Laughing on the outside

You might think anyone wanting to stand up in front of a room of strangers and try to make them laugh is mad.

1300 sign to borrow 'Dragon Tattoo'

<i>Review:</i> NZSO at Auckland Town Hall

A "FULL HOUSE" sign outside the town hall last Friday was hardly surprising, with Hilary Hahn playing Sibelius with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Britain's National Gallery to show its forgeries

A collection of paintings that have caused art aficionados to turn a deep shade of purple are to go on show.

Secret Jackie Kennedy interviews revealed

A new book covers the former First Lady's marriage and years in the White House, as well as the 1960 campaign and JFK's thoughts on a second term.

Review: <i>The Surrendered</i>

Thirty years after the Korean War, an American veteran and an Asian woman are still confronting the conflict that briefly brought them together.

Review: <i>The Imperfectionists</i>

This full and funny first novel, set around a Rome-based English-language newspaper, comes with faux reporters' room coffee stains on the cover.

<i>Review:</i> 175 East at Herald Theatre

Gretchen La Roche and Andrew Uren fashioned a graceful weave, in scurrying toccata at times and elsewhere exploring the beat of blurred dissonance.

Review: <i>So Much For That</i>

Readers will need both stamina and stomach to get through Lionel Shriver's 480-page <i>So Much for That</i>.

Always looking for trouble

New author D.J. Connell talks to Stephen Jewell about her hilarious novel which has been optioned for a film.

Settler's saga

Natasha Solomons skilfully weaves refugee tales into a novel about adjusting to life in a new land.

<i>Review:</i> NZ Music for Woodwind at University Music Theatre

Bassoonist Ben Hoadley is a man with a mission - to explore and add to the catalogue of woodwind music written by New Zealand composers.