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Take your fancies
Wellington pastry chef Maxine Scheckter shows how to achieve success in the fine art of pâtisserie.
5 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Test-tube nation
A new account of societal thinking in early New Zealand finds a mix of Māori influence, Enlightenment ideals and God.
3 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Opposite directions
Nonfiction collection reveals the dualities, paradoxes and sadness at the heart of a Māori-Pākehā writer’s life.
3 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Name of the game
A take on the fascinating true story of a man who would be king falls short of its high ambitions.
2 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Our boy
A new documentary about the man with the golden voice poses as many questions as it answers.
3 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Hidden depths
A pair of Kiwi artists with more to them than their names suggest. BY GRAHAM REID
2 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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My appetite for everything
Len Lye, Star Wars and Jesus Christ Superstar changed the life of Josh Thomson, Timaru-born comedian and closeted clarinettist.
4 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Whare into the future
A rediscovered box of papers has thrown light on the work of émigré Gerhard Rosenberg, an advocate of culturally appropriate housing who was decades ahead of his time.
5 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Advertising's final frontier
There's a lot to be learnt about different countries from the sorts of advertisements they run most frequently - you may even get a bit too much information.
2 min |
May 10-16, 2025
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Political fabric starts to fray
In late March, on her first day as an elected representative in the German Parliament, left-wing politician Cansin Köktürk wore a garment that shocked some of those present.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Nerd's eye view
An off-kilter tale about Arto, who wakes up to find he's a robot on an existential quest in a post-apocalyptic world.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Spreading the words
The world's most popular family of languages has its roots in a small corner of Europe. Its evolution - a story of migration, conquest, intermarriage and human progress - has lessons for how we see ourselves.
10+ min |
May 3-9, 2025
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CANCER ALL AROUND
Disengagement with the health system may hinder cancer detection.
3 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Dozen of the best
Booker Prize winner Graham Swift produces a clever and reflective story collection.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Chorales in counterpoint
Last year’s World Choir Games in Auckland is the focus of a new series by a leading documentary maker who contrasts a high-powered New York chorus with a homespun group from Kaitāia. BY RICHARD BETTS
4 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Brain ticklers
A stack of new reading for kids ranging from picture books to a biography of Roald Dahl.
3 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Doubly damned
A legislative amendment looks set to cause a market imbalance, leaving the public more disadvantaged than ever.
4 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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A little planning goes a long way
Kiwis who value the vanishing heritage and greenery of many of our towns and cities depend on planners to save it, say Alexandra Bonham and Jessica Rose.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Online interference
There can be no doubt that the widespread use of devices, especially by children and young people, is causing a problem.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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A rising tide of risk
As cancer diagnoses in the under-50s soar, researchers are focusing on environmental as well as dietary causes – including a possible link between microplastics and bowel cancer.
10+ min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Silence is no answer
AC Grayling, British philosopher and indefatigable author, is coming to the Auckland Writers Festival with a new book under his arm. PAUL LITTLE asks him about Discriminations – a sortie on to the battlefield of woke - and hears how to combat the haters.
5 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Her unquiet mind
A very rude magpie may still be dogging her thoughts, but one of our most successful authors has managed another novel worth squawking about.
8 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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Start spreading the news
I was preparing for bed before midnight on Good Friday when I heard the first peal of thunder, somewhere in the distance.
2 min |
May 3-9, 2025
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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 |