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Courtesy costs nothing: Schumpeter, the Economist ’s US columnist, recently renewed his driving licence at the Department of Motor Vehicles...

From the vegan cookbook I have just finished editing: A good root will smell lightly of walnuts, while one that’s gone bad during transpor...

In February CK Stead , born in 1932, published The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007–2012 (AUP). On 5 May Peter Bland , born in 1934, will launch...

Those of us who pay little or no attention to the posturing ninnies of minor political parties may wonder who Colin Craig is. All I know is ...

The 60th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the November 1996 issue. On the last page we would h...

The 59th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the October 1996 issue. It is a theatre review by Ne...

Petronella Wyatt is an English journalist who seems a good sport: she is most famous for shagging Boris Johnson when she was the spinster de...

The current issue (5-18 April) of Private Eye is a cracker. Worth every cent of the $10 cover price. A brilliant Boris Johnson cover, snarki...

One of these men is Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter and printmaker , and one is Gareth Morgan (1953-), New Zealand’s leading ...

In the 13 April issue  of the NZ Listener South Island novelist Laurence Fearnley writes about the unusually light representation of Mai...