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![Book Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>
Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.
![Concert review: Lionel Richie, Vector Arena](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Concert review: Lionel Richie, Vector Arena
Richie's voice matched the fabric of his shirts - satin and velvet - and his moves rivalled his frenetic back-up musicians.
![Arts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber
Russell Baillie reviews the first night of Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's Auckland Arts Festival season.
![Album Review: Papercuts, Fading Parade](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Papercuts, Fading Parade
Graham Reid is left wanting more from San Francisco's Jason Robert Quever.
![Movie Review: Force Of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: Force Of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Lest I be labelled a seal-clubber and eater of endangered species, I say at the start that no sensible person could disagree with any assertion in this film.
![Album Review: REM, Collapse Into Now](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: REM, Collapse Into Now
With the three members of REM now all into their fifties, it would be nice to report that they've fixed whatever stopped their Noughties albums being as vital as the ones which got them there.
![Album Review: Matt Langley, Featherbones](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Matt Langley, Featherbones
Langley's rootsy folk-cum-alt.country EP Lost Companions of 2007, recorded in Wellington, announced a mature lyricist and a singer with a delivery like the best Americana artists with a little Dylanesque drawl.
![Album Review: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We're New Here](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We're New Here
This remix album is a collaboration between Jamie Smith of hushed electronic rockers The xx and Gil Scott-Heron, the 1970s street poet and revolutionary rapper.
![Movie Review: Limitless](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: Limitless
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro face off in this drug-fuelled thriller, and it's hard to work out who comes out on top in the story, or in the acting contest.
![Book Review: <i>Daughters-In-Law</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Daughters-In-Law</i>
As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better.
![Book Review: <i>Our Tragic Universe</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Our Tragic Universe</i>
Scarlett Thomas has penned a chatty, delightful easy read about friendship, love, and making those hard, life-defining choices.
![TV Review: <i>Firstline</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
TV Review: <i>Firstline</i>
For a "grown-up" morning news show, tune into TV3's Firstline, writes Deborah Hill Cone.