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In which CK Stead comments on “this embarrassing delirium” about the Roastbusters . His first paragraph refers, I think, to the Mazengarb R...

Excellent news from the Michael King Writers’ Centre, which has announced its fellows for 2014 – Anne Kennedy, Alice Miller, Peter Well...

My wife is in Auckland overnight for a meeting of her glamorous media coven. For the children’s dinner I made the quinoa-crusted salmon dis...

There is a rule, which may even have a name, that the answer to any newspaper headline that is a question is “No.” Here is a recent exampl...

The scorecard today for the Beard Liberation Front’s 2013 Beard of the Year award   reads: Francis Wheen         56.39% Jeremy Paxman  ...

I was curious, so I downloaded the ePub file of Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker-winning The Luminaries from [insert name of illegal download s...

Francis Wheen is not a household name in New Zealand but he should be. He has been mentioned here before as biographer of Marx (he ta...

This afternoon I took my 88-year-old mother to the Tauranga Arts Festival to hear Hannah Griffin sing Norman Meehan’s songs that set the p...

The NZSA is looking for a new executive director. So if you are looking for a challenge. . . The organisation has been dysfunctional for se...

In the 26 October issue Marcus Berkmann reviews Keith Huston’s Shady Characters , a book about punctuation marks. Quote unquote: The pil...