Uncomfortable Realities
June 2, 2015
An audience with Xinran, Helen MacDonald, and Carol Ann Duffy; plus, final thoughts on the Auckland Writers Festival.
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Post-Festival Report 2014:
A Curious Quintet
August 25, 2014
Reflections on five films at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
FEMEN and Me:
An Interview with Kitty Green
June 25, 2014
The director of Ukraine is Not a Brothel on befriending the founders of the radical Feminist protest group, the dangerous ego of their former leader, and getting in touch with the Slavic soul.
Insight and Inspiration:
Auckland Writers Festival 2014
May 23, 2014
Notes on Irvine Welsh, A.M. Homes, Eimear McBride, Alice Walker, Eleanor Catton, and other luminaries at the Auckland Writers Festival.
“That is what the ‘thing’ is”
May 13, 2014
Irish writer and Goldsmiths Prize recipient Eimear McBride on her debut novel, A Girl is a Half Formed Thing.
Local Knowledge
February 21, 2014
Sandor Katz talks fermentation, consumer culture, and food politics ahead of New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
Check the Fine Print: What Exactly is The Wolf of Wall Street Selling?
January 27, 2014
Does the razzle-dazzle beauty of Martin Scorsese’s new film seduce in a way that obscures the horrors within?
You can’t beat the view: the beautiful emptiness of Gravity
December 18, 2013
Alfonso Cuaron’s new film soars as a 3-D spectacle, but it explores the human dimension through a clichéd and un-critically gendered lens.