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A touch of class
The New York Times' bestselling author Alison Roman gives family favourites an elegant twist.
6 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Hype machines
Artificial intelligence feels gimmicky on the smartphone, even if it is doing some heavy lifting in the background.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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It's not me, it's you
A CD tragic laments the end of an era.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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High-risk distractions
A river cruise goes horribly wrong; 007's armourer gets his first fieldwork; and an unlikely indigenous pairing.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Magical mouthfuls
These New Zealand rieslings are classy, dry and underpriced.
1 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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This is my stop
Why do people escape to the country? People like us, or people entirely unlike us, do. It is a dream.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Behind the facade
Set in the mid-1970s on Italian film sets, Olivia Laing's complex literary thriller holds contemporary resonances.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Final frontier
With the final season of Stranger Things we may get answers to our many questions.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Every grain counts
Draining and rinsing canned foods is one of several ways to reduce salt intake.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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The bird is singing
An 'ideas book' ponders questions of art and authenticity, performance and the role of irony.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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The light gets in
Soul veteran maintains a sense of hope in trying times.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Hard dancemaster
As Black Grace marks 30 years with an anniversary double bill, its founder explains why he continues to be so demanding.
5 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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What's in a game?
Online gaming is a big deal – but so is watching online gamers.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Old saws run deep
A man's struggle to come to terms with his past is beautifully told.
1 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Ageing gracefully
A sensitive portrayal of dementia, with moments of brilliance.
1 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Always the entertainer
The multi-faceted Chris Parker on the things that make his day sparkle.
4 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Now And Then, again
The fourth in The Beatles' Anthology series came with baggage until Apple relented.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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If the hat fits
Like a gorse-cutter, artist and activist Tāme Iti has devoted his life to kicking against the pricks.
8 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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State of nature
Scholarly but accessible account from Auckland academic weighs in on when and why Rome's empire came to be.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Gone with the woodwind
High-flying saxophonist Jess Gillam meets the NZSO.
3 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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When art history became history
The government's narrow-minded expulsion of art history from the school curriculum is at odds with its own arts policy, says Alice Tappenden.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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True crime with nibbles
Polkinghorne, redux. “There will be drinks and nibbles from 5.30 and then Steve from 6 to 7,” reads an email I received from the New Zealand Law Society - Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa in advance of an appearance I am making on November 19 to discuss my book Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Magical cranial tour
Decorated neuroscientist Sir Richard Faull is retiring after a lifetime in brain research. What has he learnt about the miracles and mysteries of the human brain?
9 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Seals of friendship
Far from the rogues depicted by history, the sealers who arrived in southern New Zealand two centuries ago integrated well with tangata whenua.
9 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Gate closes on late adapters
Ireland's Ryanair revels in being the big meanie of the travel world, to the point where cheerful boorishness (with added bleeps) is its public relations technique. But even by its own standards, being beastly to the elderly is a bold step commercially.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Caught in the net
As if child-rearing wasn't fraught enough, modern parents are losing more sleep to the cacophony of online advice.
9 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Speaking plainly
Novelist Anne Enright explores writing, family and injustice in this witty and compassionate collection of essays.
4 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Shaking the system
I'm sitting in a circle of about 20 people at Aviator Apartments, a low-rise apartment complex in a working-class neighbourhood in Colorado Springs, listening to tenants work on a list of demands to present to their landlord at a tenant union launch in a few weeks. But I'm not really listening, as I'm too busy watching to see if the property manager followed through on her threat to call the cops on us.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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Facing up to AI
In the first part of my 2025 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture on the “state of the nation” for New Zealand literature, I faced up to the issue of AI. It’s a subject I'd previously been ignoring: AI seemed too depressing, so I'd avoided news items about it.
2 min |
November 22-28, 2025
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The thinnest of blue lines
The country's trust in the police has been shaken by scandal after scandal.
4 min |