The Auckland Writers Festival has kicked off, with some very exciting national and international writers scheduled to speak over the coming days. One of the major international speakers is author of 'Bad Feminist' and 'Difficult Women', Roxane Gay. We caught up with her ahead of her talk this Sunday.
If you’re interested in heading along to see Roxane’s talk on Sunday 21 May at 10.30am at the Aotea Centre, get yourself some tickets from here.
Music can be a pretty unifying force, especially for the geographically isolated. Kiran talks to Mikey about music critic David Keenan's first novel, This Is Memorial Device, which evokes this idea while portraying a fictional post-punk band in '70s-'80s small town Scotland.
Alex picks a show Mike's had on the brain for ages - the '70s crime drama Quarry. With an antihero whose story spans the Mekong to the Mississippi, Alex gets in behind to make some bold claims of quality.
The killing of Kim Jong-un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, has sparked concern that the notorious leader is clamping down on power. The death has led to international outcry amidst already rising worries over North Korea's missile program. Mack speaks to Auckland University's Changzoo Song about this political mess.
As this week has seen political tensions rise to boiling point between North Korea and The United States, we speak with international relations expert at the University of Otago, Robert Patman on whether anyone has anything to worry about.
A report on the US and North Korea meeting at the Singapore Summit. President Donald Trump and President Kim Jong-Un signed a de-nuclearisation document and Kim Jong Un is very paranoid about his security.
In the aftermath of a meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas, Neutral Corner looks at the coverage given to this historic meeting by Fox News and China Global Television Network, with a cold open by North Korea's state broadcaster.
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