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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To describe with intense clarity
May 25, 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival refracted through a dialogue with Haruki Murakami interviewer John Freeman.
“The music of being human”
May 21, 2015
Auckland Writers Festival guests David Mitchell, Morris Gleitzman, Tim Winton, and Carol Ann Duffy offer a salient reminder of how writing gives us hope.
“Sometimes we are greater than ourselves when we write”
May 20, 2015
At this year’s Auckland Writers Festival, the glass was not just half-full, but brimming, overflowing.
“I wasn’t ready to be a bestselling author”—Haruki Murakami
May 19, 2015
Haruki Murakami talks cats, enemies, and his subconscious at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Auckland Calling
March 30, 2015
An Auckland Writers Festival 2015 preview, with selected highlights by our editors and contributors.
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.
Global Letters:
Auckland Writers Festival 2014
May 20, 2014
Sessions on North Korea, fascist Italy, and the Arab world compelled at this year’s Auckland Writers Festival.
An Interview with Reza Aslan
May 15, 2014
The acclaimed writer and scholar of religions on comedy, Iranian cinema, and the problem with fundamentalists.
“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.
I’m Your Woman:
A Conversation with Sylvie Simmons
June 7, 2013
One of rock‘n’roll’s great journalists on Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, and Bob Johnston.
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: An Epilogue
May 29, 2013
Highlights from this year’s Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
Exclusive: Masha Gessen Decides to Leave Russia
May 21, 2013
The brave author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin tells ALEXANDER BISLEY why she decided on Sunday to leave Russia.
The Other Scarlett
May 18, 2013
An interview with English novelist and Auckland Writers & Readers Festival guest Scarlett Thomas.
Touchstones: A Memoir
May 15, 2013
James McNeish’s self-portrait, hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and record of a varied cast of influential people.
The Sportswriter
May 14, 2013
Ahead of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, Shehan Karunatilaka reveals the backstory to his award-winning Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew.
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Writers: Past and Future
April 24, 2013
Highlights from The Lumière Reader’s past coverage of writers speaking at the forthcoming Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
Sweetman on Simmons on Cohen
April 22, 2013
Thoughts on Sylvie Simmons and music journalism ahead of the Leonard Cohen biographer’s trip to New Zealand in May.
This One’s For Christchurch
June 15, 2011
Canterbury writers share their memories and express their hopes for Christchurch at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
An Hour With Fatima Bhutto
June 7, 2011
At the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: Fatima Bhutto on Songs of Blood and Sword