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Thursday, 1 July 2021, 9:51 am Going West Festival’s 26th season is dialing it up, offering four multi-media Saturday evening events featuring Aotearoa’s finest writers of prose, poetry and music once a month from August. Launching on Saturday 14 August, the richly layered new-format offers something for everyone with a love of reading and ideas. “Going West Festival is 25 years old this year. We want to demonstrate our commitment to the next quarter century with a fresh programming approach. There will be live music, oratory, performance and kōrero taking place, as well as pop up pe...

Press Release – Going West Festival Going West Festival’s 26th season is dialing it up, offering four multi-media Saturday evening events featuring Aotearoa’s finest writers of prose, poetry and music once a month from August. Launching on Saturday 14 August, the richly layered new-format offers something for everyone with a love of reading and ideas. “Going West Festival is 25 years old this year. We want to demonstrate our commitment to the next quarter century with a fresh programming approach. There will be live music, oratory, performance and kōrero taking place, as well as pop ...

The Shoeshine column is the NBR’s longest-running feature. It was launched during the euphoria leading up to the October 1987 sharemarket crash, which hit New Zealand harder than most.  It was inspired by the legendary story about how, in the late summer of 1929, a shoeshine boy gave stock tips to Joseph Kennedy, a financier and father of John F Kennedy. Being a wise investor, Kennedy thought, “If shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, then it’s time to get out of the market.”  Kennedy made a killing by selling his stocks before Wall Street collapsed in October 1929, eventually lead...

Funkhaus by Magnolia 木蘭 by National Anthem by The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia (Victoria University Press)   An Exquisite Legacy: The Life and Work of New Zealand Naturalist GV Hudson by George Gibbs (Potton & Burton) Monique Fiso (Godwit, Penguin Random House) Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell (Auckland University Press) Nature – Stilled by   Specimen: Personal Essays by Te Hāhi Mihinare |The Māori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa (Bridget Williams Books) The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O’Sullivan...

Caleb Carnie/Stuff Five Year Plan by Tate Fountain. Illustration by Caleb Carnie for Short Story winner in Sunday Star Times. Five-Year Plan by Tate Fountain of Tauranga was highly commended in the 2020 Sunday Star-Times short story competition in the under-25 category. He doesn’t think she used to be a trinkets-on-the-bedside-table type of person. Her last bedroom – perhaps not her last bedroom, he doesn’t know, but the last bedroom of hers he visited – was, comparatively, Spartan. He remembers art on the walls, and recognises some of it here, but she’d kept things pretty blank i...