It was Covid that brought Carleen Ebbs home. London had been a base for the Motueka-raised soprano for 15 years. First she completed her singing training there, then she worked as a freelance soprano ...

“The Place of Shells” by Mai Ishizawa, a strange and slim novel of erudition, captures the emotional haze in the aftermath of disaster. Ishizawa’s debut novel, which won one of the three ...