A Polish Writer in Exile: An Interview with Etgar Keret
March 17, 2016
At New Zealand Festival Writers Week, the Israeli short fiction writer opens up about his first foray into narrative non-fiction, The Seven Good Years.
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“I feel like I was born for the Internet”
February 11, 2016
Mallory Ortberg, satirist and co-founder of The Toast, talks humour, femslash, and her conflicting soft spot for Ayn Rand ahead of New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
Sitting on the edge
August 6, 2015
An interview with Grant Scicluna, writer-director of Downriver—a powerful new Australian film in the tradition of The Boys.
“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.
Work-Death Balance: Employment and Exploitation in Nightcrawler
April 23, 2015
A self-taught sociopath becomes an upwardly mobile monster in Dan Gilroy’s gripping character study.
Turning Points: Mr. Turner and Selma
March 25, 2015
By focusing on pivotal segments of their subjects’ lives, two recent biopics capture an historical imprint rather than a personal saga.
Uncommon Bond: Pride
October 23, 2014
Different breeds of underdog find something worth celebrating in Matthew Warchus’s new period comedy.