Alan Duff has angrily rejected police evidence that he swung a policewoman into the road by her handcuffs during a roadside incident, citing one of his best-known characters - Beth Heke from Once Were Warriors - in his defence.
The author has admitted “ranting” at police officers, but took the witness stand yesterday to tell a [...]
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May
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Jan
Much of Jesse Ball’s delicious first novel, “Samedi the Deafness,” takes place in an inventive institution called a verisylum, an asylum for chronic liars (conveniently located near Washington). And while the Samedi part of the title becomes lucid early on, the deafness isn’t explained until Page 254. That’s fair warning: Readers who long for instant [...]
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Dec
Most dancers, I think it’s fair to say, aren’t big readers, but Rudolf Nureyev was an exception. An insomniac, who spent much of his life on planes and trains, he was nearly as voracious in his reading as he was in his two major passions: dance and sex. At school in Russia, academic standards were [...]
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