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Tall tales
Masters of reinvention struggle to match their own ambitions.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Marie Curie's magical turn
Miramar is the surprise hideaway of the glowing scientist in Tracy Farr's imaginative retelling.
4 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Fairway to Irish unity
Trans-Tasman rivalry can be ferocious over the provenance of the flat white or the pavlova, but beside the Irish custody battle over golfing great Rory McIlroy, it's a storm in a tee cup.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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For the love of Chile
Four decades on from The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende's follow-up remains true to the original.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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When jobs were fun
The greatest mystery in the world, I have decided, is how in the world I ended up as a journalist.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Picking up speed
US bluegrass star Billy Strings is riding his success all the way to NZ.
5 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Crushed to pieces
A novel that appears to be about romantic fixations morphs into a veiled account of the writer's marriage break-up.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Breaking the mould
A ‘little face-paint candy shop’ has morphed into a global business supplying lifelike body parts for hospitals and armies to train staff.
8 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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The doctor will see you for longer
Private clinics that aim to help us before chronic diseases set in are emerging - for those who can afford them.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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The music of the day
The ebb and flow of time becomes the main focus in this memorable collection of stories.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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In love and war
How Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel became an acclaimed television series by one of Australia's fiercest film-makers.
6 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Well preserved
Alex Elliott-Howery, co-founder of Sydney food community Cornersmith, has 80 classic recipes for pickles, chutneys and relishes.
6 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Odour of fossils
Policy reversals threaten the progress we're making to reduce emissions.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Minorities rule
On day three of Australia’s election campaign, former Queensland copper Peter Dutton, the tough guy opposition leader, had a question for the travelling press pack.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Making a connection
An interview with the very complicated, very funny and very messy Marlon Williams walks you to some very peculiar places.
8 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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How the West was spun
The notion that the 'civilised West' began with the Greeks and Romans ignores millennia of earlier cultural entanglements.
4 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Treasures shared
A 1970s slum house in Grey Lynn.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Dining in the dark
Eating habits have changed markedly in the past 20 years but neither health experts nor food manufacturers can tell us whether this is any better – or worse - for our health.
9 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Tikanga delayed
A requirement that learning tikanga be a compulsory part of a law degree has been upheld by Parliament's regulatory review committee.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Collision crossroads
Road rage lurks at the intersection of fear and something odd happening. But we can take evasive action.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Hands off
If Dublin's most famous fishmonger, Molly Malone, were alive-alive-o, a lot of handsy tourists would be sporting black eyes - or worse.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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All alone
Songwriters step away from their bands with tales of love lost and found.
2 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Ultimate survivor
Overwhelmed by what's going on in the world? From breaking things into chunks to sharing with a friend, psychologists offer helpful tips for navigating turbulent times.
10+ min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Entitled ignorance
In his apology to victims of abuse of children and adults in state care, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said, “You have waited and waited for people to start listening to you. Now New Zealand has listened. Words do matter and I say these words with sincerity: I have read your stories, and I believe you.”
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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Blowing up trade
Expanding the Trans-Pacific partnership may offer a way out of Donald Trump's global tariff war.
3 min |
April 19-25, 2025
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A hint of mermaids
Erin Palmisano's latest novel once again has food and romance at the heart of its well-plotted story.
2 min |
March 1-7, 2025
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Execution over innovation
Big and bold ideas are fine, but being the best beats being first.
2 min |
March 1-7, 2025
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Something's wrong with all of them
Engaging dissection of the 20th-century novel likely to send the reader in search for the book under discussion.
5 min |
March 1-7, 2025
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Cell warfare
A NZ trial using immunotherapy to beat a form of blood cancer is expanding after promising results – and it's hoped the 'gold standard' treatment will soon be widely available.
10+ min |
March 1-7, 2025
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The virus that stole all the smells
In this edited extract from The Forgotten Sense, Jonas Olofsson traces the rise in anosmia as a result of Covid-19 infections.
4 min |