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Pico Iyer has been conversing with the Dalai Lama for 33 years. Iyer talks Tibet, faith and Martin Scorsese with Lumière’s Associate Editor ALEXANDER BISLEY.
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Poetry + Short Fiction - » Zebra Forearms, By Jimmy Aston
- » Voices, By Majella Cullinane
- » Pointless Words; Seagulls, By Eli Kent
- » What Was It?; A Red Canvas; Newly Discovered Sites on the Moon; Home Leave; Your Right Arm, By Jessica Le Bas
- » Burn Rate, By David Eggleton
- » The rival, By Harvey Molloy
- » In this poem, By Mariana Isara
- » At six, By Desh Balasubramaniam
- » after reading Sam Hunt's poem 'Better than this?' (or why poetry is worthwhile), By Vaughan Gunson
- » Willow Green Willow, By Mary Cresswell
- » 5 Million Scovilles on Toast, By Charlotte Simmonds
- » Anti-Militant, By Michael Botur
- » James Bond and the Diabetic Bridesmaid; Another Ex-Expatriate; The Boxer's Dog, By Katy Giebenhain
- » Theory of light, By Joan Fleming
- » Fifteen; The Hoarder; Josephine, By Craig Cliff
- » Andromeda; Pagan Song, By Alexandra Fraser
- » A Sunny Place; Sugar, By Jeffrey S. Correa
- » Sidestepping, By Ian C Smith
- » LUCKY., By Anna Kelly
- » Pleasantries, By Gina Williams
- » Materialism, By Medb Charleton
- » Chinese Pop Music, By JC Borrelle
- » Marilyn; A walk in the park, By Ann-Marie Keating
- » Road trip up North, By Bill Nelson
- » r.i.p. Niccolo Paganini, By Pan Xiaohui
- » Mother Love; The Ecological Niche of Manawa, By Alexandra Fraser
- » Before difference, By Raechel Rees
- » Country Pubs and Waiting Rooms, By Oscar Tunnicliff
- » Aquarium, By Gene Banyard
- Jordan Reyne on How The Dead Live
- WOMAD 2009: In Images, Lo Cor de la Plana
- » Joseph Mount on Metronomy
- » Richie Singleton on Rebel Peasant
- » A Handsome Furs Interview
- » Bachelorette on My Electric Family
- » A Shayne Carter Interview
- » A Vic Chesnutt Interview
- » A Trail of Dead Interview
- » Mel Parsons on Over My Shoulder
- » Finn Andrews on Sun Gangs
- » A Jacob Perkins Interview
- » An Okkervil River Interview
- » A Sneaky Sound System Interview
- » Otis Taylor, Mingus Big Band Interviews
- » A John Doe Interview
- » The Best of Music in 2008
- » The Ethics of World Music
- » Tim Gane on Stereolab
- » A Campbell Kneale Interview
- » Robert Scott on The Bats
- » Warwick Blair on Stars
- » A Holy Fuck Interview
- » Luke Buda on Vesuvius
- » A WOELV Interview
- » A Jeremy Jay Interview
- » Good Eggs
- » Yule on Aaaarrrggh!!!
- » On Straight Outta Compton
- » A Filp Grater Interview
- » A White Swan Black Swan Interview
- » Bond Street Bridge on The Mapmaker's Art
- » A So So Modern Interview
- » A Lucky Dragons Interview
- » Little Pictures on Owl + Owl
- » Robert Fisher and the Willard Grant Conspiracy
- » Alex Scally on Beach House
- » Samuel Flynn Scott on Straight Answer Machine
- » A Moana Maniapoto Interview
- » Steve Abel on Flax Happy
- » Chris Knox on A Warm Gun
- » A Coco Solid Interview
- » Jesus Garcia on La Bohème
- » An Interview with Bevan Smith
- » An Interview with Malcolm Middleton
- » Sam Handley on An Emerald City
- » An Interview with Henry Rollins
- » Dudley Benson on The Awakening
- » Nik Brinkman on Over the Atlantic
- » Heavy Metal Drummer: Glen Kotche talks Wilco
- » Young Talent: Perrin Cloutier and Paul Collins on Beirut
- » Olivier Libaux on Nouvelle Vague
- » Ben Kemp on Inside the Un-cut Apple
- » Ryan McPhun on Sea Lion
- » Jeremy Barnes on A Hawk and a Hacksaw
- » Year in Review: The Ten Best Albums of 2007 + More Best Albums
- » Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
- » Disasteradio on Visions
- » Mark Roberts of The Enright House on A Maze and Amazement LP
- » Soundtrack: A Personal Journey Through New Zealand Music
- » The Phoenix Foundation: A Happy Ending
- » An Interview with Jed Town
- Elizabeth Knox on The Angel's Cut
- » Books that Mattered in 2008
- » Post-Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 2008
- » Writers & Readers Festival: The Elusive Junot Díaz
- » Five questions for Thomas Kohnstamm
- » An Interview with Heather O'Neill
- » A Hot Pink Interview
- » An Interview with Maxine Alterio
- » Q & A with Brigid Hughes
- » An Interview with Paula Green
- » No mucking about: fifteen minutes with Craig Sherborne
- » An Interview with David Mitchell
- » An Interview with Christian Bok
- » The Fearless Writer: Mayra Montero
- Eleven Questions with Mr Dave Armstrong
- » A Chat with Glen Pickering
- » Alex Ellis and Phil Ormsby
- » Loyalty, Vengeance, Envy, Love
- » Renee Liang on Lantern
- » A Chat with Philip Patston
- » A Chat with Sam Trubridge
- » Savoir-Fleur: An Interview with Fleur Elise Noble
- » A Complete Dagg: An Interview with John Clarke
- » A Chat with Jonathan Hodge
- » A Chat with Laurence Dolan
- » An Interview with Pico Iyer
- » A Rebel Alliance Interview
- » Green Fire Islands' Bronwen Christianos
- » An Interview with Smackbang
- » Peter Kowitz on Blackbird
- » Jack Fortune on Black Watch
- » An Interview with Francois Seguin
- » Sarah Jane Parton on Belonging
- » A Chat with Angela Andrews
- » Year in Review: The Top Ten Books of 2007
- » 'Strongly connected to a place': an interview with Laurence Fearnley
- » A Chat with Greg Macleod
- » Miriam Margolyes on Dickens' Women
- » Geoff Cochrane: Interviewed by Damien Wilkins
- » Interesting Tension: Observations from the Intellectual Brothel
- » Alison Wong talks Poetry
- » The Braunias Interview
- » The interrogation of Toa Fraser: all about collaboration
- » The Iowa Writers' Workshop
By Brannavan Gnanalingam
By Catherine Bisley
By Christine Linnell
By Alexander Bisley
- Writers & Readers: Winning Words—IIML Prize in Modern Letters
- » Don't mention the war: post-war generations
- » Legitimate Dangers: On Breaking the Rules
- » Poetry Machine, indeed: Paul Muldoon
- Fiction, non-fiction and poetry book reviews, with a local bias.
- » Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory
- » An Exciting Challenge: the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2009
- » A Chat with Mohammed Hanif
- » J.M.G. Le Clezio's The Book of Flights
- » Collected Poems 1951-2006, By C.K. Stead
- » Hue & Cry Journal, Issue Two: Stakeout
- » Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 2009
- » The Love School, By Elizabeth Knox
- » A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex, Edited by Stu Bagby
- » The Awa Book of New Zealand Science, Edited by Rebecca Priestley; The Amazing World of James Hector, Edited by Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham
- » The Propaganda Poster Girl, By Amy Brown
- » Transported, By Tim Jones
- » Fighting For My Life: The Confession of a Violent Offender, By J J Joesph
- » Paula Spencer, By Roddy Doyle
- » Carl Shuker on David Foster Wallace
- » Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists, By Veronika Meduna and Rebecca Priestly
- » Etiquette for a Dinner Party, By Sue Orr
- » Beautiful Children, By Charles Bock
- » The World's Fastest Flower, By Charlotte Simmonds
- » Hungry For Words: Christchurch Writers Festival 2008
- » Been There, Read That! Stories for the Armchair Traveller, Edited by Jean Anderson
- » The Lakes of Mars, By Chris Orsman
- » Novel About My Wife, By Emily Perkins
- » Misconduct, By Bridget van der Zijpp
- » God of Speed, By Luke Davies
- » To the Harbour, By Stanley Palmer; The Magpies, By Denis Glover/Dick Frizzell; Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant, By Gavin Bishop; The Adventures of Sydney Penguin, By David Elliot
- » Parallel Lines, By Annie Villiers and John Z Robinson
- » Painted Poems, By Eion Stevens
- » Submarine, By Joe Dunthorne
- » Going as far as I can, By Duncan Fallowell
- » At the End of Darwin Road, By Fiona Kidman
- » Echolocation, By Angela Andrews
- » JAAM 25, Edited by Siobhan Harvey
- » Two Little Boys, By Duncan Sarkies
- » Still Shines When You Think of It: A Festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan, Edited by Bill Manhire and Peter Whiteford
- » Towards Another Summer, By Janet Frame
- » The Earth's Deep Breathing, Garden Poems by New Zealand Poets, Edited by Harvey McQueen
- » Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins, By Paula Green
- » A Long Girl Ago, By Johanna Aitchison
- » Acts of Love, By Susan Pearce
- » Falling for Science, By Bernard Beckett
- » Kate's Klassics, By Kate Camp
- » Fire in the Blood, By Irene Nemirovsky
- » Muck, By Craig Sherborne
- » Tributary, By Rae Varcoe
- » The Best New Zealand Fiction, Vol. 4, Edited by Fiona Farrell
- » Spook Country, By William Gibson
- » Slam, By Nick Hornby
- » Edwin + Matilda, By Laurence Fearnley
- » no one belongs here more than you, By Miranda July
- » My Mother's Lovers, By Christopher Hope
- » The Wal-Mart Effect, By Charles Fishman
- » The Kindness of Strangers, By Shonagh Koea
- » As Far As We Know, By Paul Callaghan and Kim Hill
- » After Dark, By Haruki Murakami
- » This Time of Dying, By Reina James
- » Mrs Winter's Jump, By Jenny Bornholdt
By Gemma Freeman
- WOMAD 2009 Reviewed; Interviews: Roger King, Madeleine Sami, Richard King; In Images
- Local album and concert reviews, plus a monthly gig guide.
- » APO performs The Creation
- » Gautier Capucon and the NZSO
- » Mahler's Sixth
- » 175 East
- » The Tiger Lillies
- » APO + NZSO
- » NZSO w/ Kari Kriikku
- » Electric. Eclectic. Acoustic.
- » Family Cactus w/ The Friendly Barnacle
- » Okkervil River w/ Family Cactus
- » Lumiere Gig Guide: April 2009
- » Wellington Jazz Festival: Roberto Fonseca, Brad Mehldau Trio, Tomasz Stanko Quartet, Melanie Pain, Otis Taylor
- » Of Montreal w/ So So Modern
- » El Guincho w/ The Ruby Suns
- » Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
- » Album Briefs: Over the Atlantic, Dimensions; SJD, Dayglo Spectres
- » Stereolab w/ Bachelorette
- » Big Day Out 2009: In Review
- » The Penny Ikinger Band w/ The Maladies, Redfish Bluegrass (AUS)
- » The Dodos w/ The Ruby Suns
- » The Boat People w/ Seabellies (AUS)
- » Mountain Goats w/ Sidekicknick
- » Holy Fuck w/ The Pyramid Scheme
- » The Good China w/ The Mischief and Twin Vickers (AUS)
- » Handle the Jandal 2008
- » The Idle Hoes w/ Country Burnouts (AUS)
- » The Yoshida Brothers
- » Major Major w/ Ben Birchall and The Corrections, Wil Wagner, and The Harpoons (AUS)
- » Big Day Out 2008 Line-up Announcement 1 + 2
- » Tom Woodward & The Orphanage (AUS)
- » Howe Gelb w/ Manimanima
- » The New Pornographers w/ Martin Phillips
- » Blackalicious
- » The Willard Grant Conspiracy
- » Che Fu w/ Vector Wellington Orchestra
- » Beach House w/ Nik Brinkman, Bachelorette
- » Grayson Gilmour w/ Paper ghost, Kitten Et Me and Seth & Merle
- » !!! (Chk Chk Chk) w/ So So Modern
- » Malcolm Middleton w/ Jeremy Taylor
- » La Boheme
- » Dudley Benson w/ Richard Nunns
- » Hayden w/ Jess Chambers
- » Wilco w/ Miriam Clancy
- » Smashing Pumpkins w/ Queens of the Stone Age
- » Iron & Wine
- » Big Day Out 2008: In Review [1] [2] [3]
- » Okkervil River w/ Ladybird
- » Ween
- » The Journey (Fringe 2008)
- » Little Bushman: Pendulum
- » Explosions in the Sky w/ Thought Creature
- » SJD, The Clean
- » Billy Bragg w/ Lyndon Puffin
- » Timothy Blackman: Modern Sprawl Album Release
- » The Gossip w/ Cortina
- » Goldenhorse: Reporter Album Release Party
- » Die!Die!Die! w/ The Riff Rats and Dial
- » Liam Finn
- » New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: Edo de Waart conducts Planet Damnation
- » Turandot
- » Kristin Hersh
- » New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: Hakan Hardenberger [a] [b]
- » Battles w/ Surf City
- » Pine, Twelve Hour Collision; Hollie Smith, Long Player; Brian Platt, Eleven Steps
- » SJD: Songs from a Dictaphone
- NZ Arts Festival 2008
- » Clube do Balanco
- » Chaplinoperas
- » The Songs of Kurt Weill
- » Book of Longing
- » Nouvelle Vague
- » Absolute Mahler
- » Dave Dobbyn
- » The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
- » Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill
- » The Bad Plus
Coverage by The Lumiere Reader
- Wellington-based theatre and performing arts reviews.
- » The Who's Tommy (AKLD)
- » Birds of Paradise
- » Postal
- » Eugene Onegin
- » Vienna Verona
- » The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- » Young and Hungry 2009, Auckland Season; Wellington Season
- » Cirque du Soleil: Dralion
- » The Clean House
- » Carol & Nev (AKLD)
- » All the World's a Stage
- » Charm Is Not Enough
- » Lantern [a] [b]
- » The Scene (AKLD)
- » Blood Wedding
- » 2-Dimensional Life of Her
- » Year of the Rat
- » Pick of the Fringe: The Intricate Art of Actually Caring, Poly-Zygotic, A Most Outrageous Humbug
- » God of Carnage
- » Hedda Gabler
- » The Winter's Tale (AKLD)
- » My Brilliant Divorce
- » Dolores
- » The Cherry Orchard (AKLD)
- » Serendipity
- » A Brief History of Helen of Troy
- » Strange Resting Places
- » Hatch
- » Rock 'n' Roll
- » Turbine
- » Henry V
- » Betrayal
- » The Altruists
- » Becoming the Courtesan: A Remarkable Seduction
- » Jesus Christ Superstar: touring production of Shiki Theatre Company
- » Summer Shorts
- » Jennifer Ward-Lealand: The Look of Love
- » Heat
- » Red Riding Hood
- » Wait Until Dark
- » Apollo 13
- » The Little Dog Laughed (AKLD)
- » A City of Souls (AKLD)
- » Bare
- » Drinking Games
- » Mr Marmalade
- » Daddy's Home (AKLD)
- » Oleanna (AKLD)
- » Whero's New Net (AKLD)
- » On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover
- » Grace (AKLD)
- » The Pohutukawa Tree
- » Some girl(s)
- » Footnote Forte Season 2008
- » Blackbird
- » Mammals
- » Ship Songs (AKLD)
- » Guys and Dolls
- » Winter
- » A Horse Story: Blinkers and Spurs (AKLD)
- » The Girls Show (AKLD)
- » Jane Eyre
- » Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (AKLD)
- » Young and Hungry 2008
- » Love Song
- » Who Needs Sleep Anyway? (AKLD)
- » Songs of Hollow Hill
- » The Devils
- » Guardians
- » The American Pilot
- » The Threepenny Opera (AKLD)
- » Pick of the Fringe 2008: March of the Meeklings, Sensible Susan and the Queen's Merkin, 2 b or nt 2 b?
- » The Female of the Species (AKLD)
- » 2008 Made in New Zealand
- » Gunner Inglorious
- » Marilyn: Forever Blonde
- » Dead Meat: A play about poison in three parts (AKLD)
- » The Play About the Baby (AKLD)
- » Where We Once Belonged (AKLD)
- » My Night With Reg (AKLD)
- » Bouncers
- » Blinkers (AKLD)
- » This is Our Youth
- » LUV (AKLD)
- » Hail to the Thief
- » Beyond the Blue (AKLD)
- Auckland Festival 2009
- » The Chairs
- » The Ensemble Project: Backstory
- » SJD, Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen
- » The Andersen Project, The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band
- » The Ensemble Project: Life is a Dream
- » The Arrival, Nostalgia
- » The Height of the Eiffel Tower
- » Funky Oriental Beats
- » The Wide Alley, Fluff
- » Little Rain, Tempest: Without a Body, Gathering Clouds, Sleep/Wake
- » Te Karakia
- Comedy Festival 2008/2009
- » The Comediettes; Mickey D, Too Mickey, Bro!; Danny Bhoy
- » A Song for the Ugly Kids
- » Austen Found; Full English; A Guide To The Uncool
- » Wayne Brady, Making S%!t Up; Jason Cook, Joy; A Night with Beau Tyler; Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams
- » Steve Coogan Live
- » First Laughs
- » Dave Wiggins: 100% Human, 0% Whale
- » Thrice Pudding
- » RAW Comedy Quest Final, 2008
- » Grant Lobban: Laugh You Long Time
- » One Man Star Wars Trilogy
- » Brendhan Lovegrove
- » Justine Smith: Return of the Jussi
- » (Not) The All India Radio Show
- » Funk Rabbit: International Improv Duo
- » Julia Morris
- » Jamie Bowen: Bowen Arrow
- » Hypnotastic Tour 2008
- » James Nokise: Beige Against the Machine
- » Dai Henwood: Dai-namic Scenarios
- » Simon McKinney: Land of the Long White Clown
- » Mark Watson: Can I Briefly Talk To You about The Point Of Life?
- » Jimeoin on Ice
- » Ben Hurley: Boom!
- » Arj Barker: New and Improved!
- » Rubber Turkey
- » Janey Godley: Tell It Like It Is
- » David O'Doherty: It's David O'Doherty Time [1] [2]
- » The Lonesome Buckwhips
- » First Laughs
- » Paul Tonkinson
- Fringe 2008/2009
- » Wolf's Lair
- » Tick, Tick... Boom!
- » Keep it Rural
- » A Most Outrageous Humbug
- » Words Apart
- » Poly-zygotic
- » The Intricate Art of Actually Caring
- » The Mountain
- » Faust Chroma
- » Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish
- » Colony! + GRIMM
- » Buddha Boy
- » The Frogs Under the Waterfront
- » Jane Austen is Dead
- » Art from Whoa to Go and Other Stories
- » Location, Location
- » Lady of Tears
- » Zarathustra Said
- » Sarah Jane Parton on Belonging
- » Blinkers
- » Charlie
- » 2 b or nt 2 b?
- » Babycakes
- » Singing with the Animals
- » The Journey
- » Where's the Comedy
- » Familiar Strangers
- » Shipwrecked Beneath the Stars
- » Vula
- » The Nominal Space
- » The Beckoning of Hope
- NZ Arts Festival 2008
- » Honour Bound
- » Borrowed Light
- » Where We Once Belonged
- » The Dentist's Chair
- » Traces
- » Glow
- » Lifeboat
- » Who Wants to be 100? (Anyone Who's 99)
- » Bro'Town Live on Stage
- » Tama Tu Tama Ora
- » Te Karakia
- » Cirque Ici: Secret
- » La Vie
- » Three Sisters
- Reviews of visual arts publications, group/solo shows and exhibitions.
- » The Most Serene Republic: 53rd Venice Biennale
- » Bold Centuries: A Photographic History Album
- » Marie Shannon, Love Notes; Rachel Shearer, Hold Still
- » A Field Guide to Camera Species
- » Art at Te Papa
- » John Ward Knox, gains on losses
- » White Fungus, Issue 10
- » The Houses of Hayes Paddock
- » Seen This Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists
- » Beginning in the Archive: Giovanni Intra 1989-1996
- » White Silence: Grahame Sydney's Antarctica
- » All Dogs Shot: The Photography of Roger Donaldson
- » Heaphy
- » VizulEyz, Issue 1
- » Amy Howden-Chapman, The Flood, My Chanting
- » Peter Peryer: Photographer
- » Baches Of Raglan
- » Certain Words Drawn: John Reynolds Continued
- » Lela Jacobs, School of Shadows
- » Fiona Hall, Force Field
- » NZ Body Art Awards
- » Close Up: Contemporary Contact Prints
- » Next Wave Festival 2008
- » My Beloved Hackneyed: Paintings and Poetry
- » Rita Angus: An Artist's Life
- » The National Grid
- » Etiquette for the Homesick, Genevieve Packer and Caroline McQuarrie
- » Beautiful Confusion: Sinfonia Antarctica
- » Murray Hewitt, Gospel
- » Empire
- » Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs
- » Hue & Cry Journal
- » Wild Beast: The Art of Dean Buchanan
- » Making Art History
- » Hinterland: Rick Alexander's New Zealand photographs
- » Trash Palace: Contemporary Projects
- » Stopover, By Bruce Connew
- » A New Narrative: Primary Products
- » Escapist: Kelcy Taratoa
- » Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township, By David Cook
- » A Chill in the Air: Laurence Aberhart
- » Aberhart: The Last Of His Kind?
- » Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
- » The Fast Talker: Ten Questions for David Eggleton
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