Quote Unquote

The Collected Works of John Dowland , performed by The Consort of Musicke under Anthony Rooley. This was a birthday present last month from ...

He wasn’t a big name in New Zealand – though he did appear on TV a few times over the years – but former tabloid editor Derek Jameson, who d...

This one comes not from the Waikato Times , as is customary, but from today’s edition of the Press [not online]: Airport in Merivale Re...

“Architects are the last people who should shape our cities,” says Jonathan Meades in the Guardian . Quote unquote: One cause of this fail...

The 57th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the December 1994 issue. It is an interview with Kim...

You remember the story of the well-meaning woman in Spain, Cecilia Giminez, an octogenarian who tried to restore a fresco at the Sanctuario...

Yesterday. Top of Symonds Street in Auckland, a former post office: a good place for conviviality .   Present: Chris Bell, Mark Broatch,...

It’s a shame this isn’t “essentially a literary gossip column” – you can’t believe everything CK Stead says – because if it was I’d have a ...

Applications close at 5 p.m on Friday 21 September. Be in to win.  The official news is: Established and mid-career New Zealand writer...

Bill Manhire’s Selected Poems (VUP), $35. Amazing value – it’s a hardback of 160 pages. Nice cover – matches my copies of   his earli...