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Using alchemy of prose to let off steam

Charlotte Grimshaw once described her last novel, <i>Foreign City</i>, as a kind of "layer cake" of fiction, reality and fictionalised reality.

Art of glass

Four glass artists tell us why they chose the medium and what inspires their unique creations.

Shocking cost of living longer

Writer Lionel Shriver tells Stephen Jewell how a friend's illness inspired her to take on the injustices of the healthcare system.

Tom Keneally: Humanising history

Australian author Tom Keneally talks to Graham Reid about how criminals and the rich were thrown together when the country was founded.

<i>Review:</i> Charles Lloyd New Quartet at Bruce Mason Centre

At its most pure and best, jazz is a live art where musicians disassemble, explore, then reconstruct melodies and rhythms right before your ears.

Review: <i>Horseplay</i> at the Maidment Theatre

There are Baxter self-quotations and talk of cut-throats and fowlhouses for literary experts to spot, but you don't have to know a line of the great men's work to enjoy the play.

Friction between dancers causing walkout

Beneath the sequins and smiles, all is not well in the world of ballroom dancing in New Zealand.

Cuban smile reveals future face of US

Urban poet coming to our neighbourhood

Dark takes his cue from mysterious electronic producers like Burial, whose identity was a closely guarded secret until he was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.