Kiran Dass

Kiran Dass lives in Auckland. She has covered music and books for the Listener, NZ Herald, Sunday magazine, Sunday Star-Times, Metro, Landfall, The Wire (UK), Radio New Zealand and 95bFM.

Books
Jul 23, 2020

The man who looked the apocalypse in the face – and laughed

Mark O'Connell confronts his climate change anxieties and goes deep on prepper culture, even flying to Aotearoa to eyeball Peter Thiel's supposed bolthole in Queenstown.

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Art
Jan 18, 2020

On swampy ground: painter and printmaker Brent Harris returns home

Palmerston North-born Brent Harris’s considers himself an Australian artist, but his work is suffused with the unease and melancholia long associated with New Zealand art, cinema and music.

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Objectspace 2019
Nov 3, 2019

The back country record cutter putting New Zealand music on plastic

In a shed at the foothills of the Southern Alps, Peter King has made special lathe cuts of recordings by an eclectic array of musicians.

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Music
Dec 9, 2018

RIP Pete Shelley: Punk, Lover, Homosapien

Kiran Dass remembers Pete Shelley, co-founder and co-songwriter of the Buzzcocks, who died this week.

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Books
Dec 19, 2017

The fourth best book of 2017: Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti

All week this Christmas week we countdown the best six books of 2017. Number four: Art Sex Music, the memoir by musician Cosey Fanni Tutti, whom reviewer Kiran Dass describes as 'a staunch, fearless woman with backbone'.

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Music
Aug 30, 2017

‘I definitely had a chip on my shoulder’: Matthew Bannister on the return of Sneaky Feelings

Thirteen years after she would walk past him every morning on the way to work, Kiran Dass talks to Matthew Bannister of Sneaky Feelings about the band's return and its place in Flying Nun folk lore.

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Books
May 25, 2016

An exclusive interview with literary sensation Hanya Yanagihara

Kiran Dass in conversation with literary sensation Hanya Yanagihara.

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Books
May 12, 2016

The guy who writes really good novels about totally repulsive assholes

Dutch novelist Herman Koch writes page-turning thrillers about the repulsiveness of the people next door in middle-class neighbourhoods. Kiran Dass interviewed him ahead of his appearance at the Auckland Writers Festival.

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Music
Oct 16, 2015

An Interview with Martin Bramah, Occasional Fall Guy

Kiran Dass interviews English post-punk legend Martin Bramah, on the eve of his former band The Fall's New Zealand tour, about his life in drugs and music.

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Books
Oct 13, 2015

Books: Exclusive Interview with Man Booker Finalist Hanya Yanagihara

A Spinoff Review of Books exclusive: Man Booker finalist Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Kiran Dass

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