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Fifth symphony
Composer John Psathas talks about the careful thought and cross-cultural collaboration that went into a work to be performed by the NZSO marking the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Love in the murder factory
An extraordinary romance was somehow able to blossom amid Auschwitz’s horrific conveyor belt of death’.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Words do not fail her
Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear dementia is a delight to read.
2 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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A touch of magic
Christchurch writer spins an enchanting story around shape-shifting kelpies.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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You say you want a revolution
Beginning with the Arab Spring, the 2010s ushered in a new dawn of protest. This lucid account of recent political and social history explains why the uprisings failed.
4 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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(S)mall fortunes
What was intended as a pedestrian-friendly version of European street life has become the bane of many shoppers' lives.
5 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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A class of their own
Dontt dismiss the bottom-feeders’ in today’s schools history shows us the battlers can make it through, with some focused guidance.
4 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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A blank canvas
For Melbourne-based Richard Lewer, discovering the brutal history of the Waikato War meant confronting the silence he encountered in his Kirikiriroa upbringing.
8 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Primary colours
The presidential primaries set the stage for a November rematch that most American voters don’t want, but seem unable to avert.
9 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Green ticket to ride
She has geckos behind her bread board, long-tailed bats and eels on her property and she drives an electric all-terrain vehicle. Is Celia Wade-Brown the perfect Green MP?
8 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Ahead of the curvature
Research suggests declining bone health may have links to brain disease. What can we do to slow these processes?
10+ min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
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Treading water
Even some of our national parks are failing the bare-minimum water-quality standards.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
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What's your poison?
A global survey of recreational drug use can help policymakers and consumers to reduce risk.
3 min |
February 10-16 2024
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The King and I
Sofia Coppola delivers a poignant portrait of the powerless Queen of Graceland.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
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A new purple patch
Acclaimed novel and movie gets a stunning musical treatment.
1 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Outdoor pursuit
Eric Bana and director Robert Connolly talk about why detective mystery The Dry 2 is much wetter than their hit original.
5 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Grin and hear it
Radiohead offshoot's solid new LP, more high drama from Future Islands.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Popping his cork
The National's frontman Matt Berninger on his need for close audience interaction, and the gravitational pull of Taylor Swift
7 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Truth will out
Compelling stories of those who are determined to defy the Communist Party line to expose tyranny and suffering.
3 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Wheels coming off
First-time novelist takes readers along with four young expats on a satisfying if tense Italian road trip.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
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The one who stayed behind
Kiwi expat delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel inspired by an Australian icon.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Art in high places
In the Queensberry Hills between Cromwell and Wänaka, the Poison Creek Sculpture Project is enriching Central Otago's cultural scene.
6 min |
February 10-16 2024
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The pain that remains
Former MasterChef contestant Alice Taylor says finally putting a name to the cause of her agony was just a beginning.
8 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Hold the line, caller
Fifty years on, RNZ National listeners need have no fear that the station's signature bird call faces extermination.
5 min |
February 10-16 2024
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What's the wAlt?
NZ needs to act as the talk of the technology world quickly becomes a key tool of business and government.
8 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Entreaties of Waitangi
In its short time in office, the government has set the scene for a fiery commemoration of New Zealand's national day.
10+ min |
February 10-16 2024
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Boarding school bluff
In bygone days, harassed parents used to threaten their offspring with boarding school as the ultimate Dickensian punishment for persistent misbehaviour.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Tractors at the gates
The halls are decked with flowers and loops of sausages and salami hang from the rafters.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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An autumn of ordinariness?
It's been a summer of discontent for the coalition government but it will be hoping for calmer times ahead.
4 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Out of gas
The barriers to electric vehicle uptake in NZ go further than range anxiety.
2 min |