News Source: The Guardian
| 3 days ago
It was the year our era began, with unprecedented abruptness, in obscene rolling news. But, blessedly, literature moves at a much slower pace, and it would be some years before the convulsions of September 2001 began to resound in serious fiction .
News Source: New Zealand Herald
| 15 days ago
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Where: Auckland Town Hall When: Thursday at 8pm Best not to write off the viola as the shrinking violet of the string family, bowing away in the shadow of its higher-profile siblings, the violin and cello.
News Source: The Independent
| 15 days ago
The dark relationship between individual and society is a vexed, and vexing, subject in Russian history – and so, too, in The People's Train, Thomas Keneally's at-times brilliant retelling of the experiences of two men in the lead-up to, and during,