Apocalypse? No

Data scientist Hannah Ritchie takes a mostly untravelled path between climate scepticism and climate doomerism.

Setting out for the summit

Airini Beautrais' original and far-reaching personal essays place her at the top of the field.

A kind of magic

With upcoming roles in The White Lotus and local production Friends Like Her, Morgana O’Reilly no longer feels the need to prove herself. But her unpedicured feet remain firmly on the ground.

Naked ambition

Harsh treatment has sent strip club workers on to the streets to campaign for legislative and workforce rights.

Webb of intrigue

A retrospective of artist Marilynn Webb argues for her place as one of Aotearoa's most important and innovative landscape artists.

Go north for a while

Acclaimed poet and GP Glenn Colquhoun has some sage words for Act leader David Seymour: taihoa on your Treaty of Waitangi referendum stuff.

Betting the house

Retirement villages rely on a business model that deters many prospective buyers. With demand increasing as the population ages, clamour for reform is building.

The big dry

All we know is that here at Lush Places, our pasture and gardens are gasping. The pasture is the worry. The garden is a luxury but if you move to the country to buy a garden, the lack of rain is distressing.

Digital disruption or disaster?

If the news media is left to sink or swim, who will hold the powerful to account?

Fair's fair

Are we kidding ourselves that the world is a fair and just place?

Fortify yourself

Iodine is an essential mineral for our metabolism but opt for bread and milk rather than salt to get an adequate dose.

Flautist’s flight

A United Nations of styles mark Tessa Brinckman’s collection of flute pieces.

Characters with a back story

A new local comedy drama set in a spinal unit is based on the lives of two of its writers, one of whom stars in the show.

On the slopes of whakapapa

Kids go bush in Taranaki in a family flick with some familiar touches.

Southern belles

Kaylee Bell embraces Nashville, while Amiria Grenell heads to Americana.

Flying colours

Look Blue Go Purple, a group which stood out among the many in 1980s Dunedin, is being honoured at the Taite Music Prize. RUSSELL BROWN tracked down the op shop-raiding politest band in rock'n'roll”.

Critters for life's jitters

A talking fox offers solace to a struggling man in this moving story about the redemptive power of nature.

Intimations of war

Two women, Maori and Pakeha, are at the centre of a novel in which the Taranaki land wars are the backdrop.

Hungering for more

In fat-averse Japan, a female convicted killer with a French food fetish gives a journalist a sensory awakening.

Using his noodle

A journey from mastery of a carrot salad to finding new love in Wellington ends the dislocation felt after a bereavement.

Palestinian horror story

The tragedy of Israel and Palestine’s intractactable conflict is writ small in this fine investigative work.

All in the family

A generational journey that spans from Colombo and London to Invercargill introduces a new Kiwi writer.

Stories of unease

Setting down family histories of Aotearoa's colonisation is a small but significant step in changing the conversation, argues Richard Shaw.

Crosses to bear

An early commission by one of the country's most highly regarded artists lies hidden in obscurity amid a row over traditional and modern art in a religious context.

Battleground bylines

Forget images of tough-guy male war correspondents two of New Zealand’s most distinguished reporters from the front lines were women.

In the firing line

MBIE also known as the Ministry for Everything - has grown exponentially since it was conceived in 2012. What will the government's belt-tightening mean for its services?

Horror on the highways

When speeding kills more New Zealanders each year than homicide, there's dismay over the new government trading speed reductions for perceived economic benefits.

The medium needs a massage

My doctoral thesis was about the impact of the printing press a new information. technology on law and legal culture in the England of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Little (photo)shop of horrors

There was a teeny bit of acid in the atmosphere when New Zealand won so many noughties Academy Awards for Lord of the Rings. Oscars host Billy Crystal joked \"everybody in New Zealand\" had been thanked.

Just what the doctor ordered

'Kia ora,\" said the text message from the AI, \"your ACC claim has been No human had needed to read my explanation that I had injured my back bending badly to stack the dishwasher on a Sunday morning.