The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Poetry, fiction and non-fiction reads for the weekend.
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Menopause advocate Sarah Connor: "Climbing Mt Everest in your undies is brave"
The Menopause over Martinis founder on breaking down barriers in the workplace.
Happy Endings: Keri by Svakom - for alone time but partner-play too
Keri - the toy that doesn't make your hand feel 'fizzy'
Diana Wichtel: 'A good day for things they said couldn't be done'
Sport speak - a language that knows no gender.
Olivier Holland: "Someone just pulled out their phone and the video went viral"
The German-born jazz bassist on players and performances that have moved and inspired him.
From Marilyn to Chanel: Remembering Hollywood's leading celebrity photographer
New York Times: Douglas Kirkland famously shot Marilyn Monroe in bed wrapped in a sheet.
Design for Living: The e-scooters of Istanbul
Bright ideas that makes cities better: e-scooters with safe routes to ride them.
Richard E. Grant: being ignored by Nicole Kidman, a weekend with King Charles III
Richard E. Grant delivers "glittering morsels of gossip"
How Massive dreams come true in theatre
Six top Kiwi actors on the role Massive theatre company has played in their career
Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy is missing a comma, and much else
Greg and Zanna review Lena Dunham's cinematic love letter to a beloved novel.
The love of two wheels: Motorcycle fans tell all
Ken Downie finds out what lies behind the passion for motorcycles.
'My rugby conversion to hardcore fan' - I was forced to confront my own long-held perceptions and I was surprised'
'Was this feminist going to be walking into a pit of testosterone-fuelled chauvinism?'
Steve Braunias: 'Hot pools form a kind of river running beneath New Zealand'
Steve Braunias reflects on the importance of the hot pool.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Kelly Ana Morey talks to Catherine Chidgey about her new rural-set novel.
Design for Living: The town King Charles built
The nostalgic new urbanism of Poundbury, designed with help from King Charles.
From 'freaking brilliant' to a 'truckload of hate' - outcry over Jihad Rehab
How Meg Smaker's Jihad Rehab went from Sundance debut of her dreams to nightmare
Bar food hits new heights: The Auckland rooftop bar you should check out this weekend
Masala fries with your Waitākere sunset?
'Soft, gentle, modern intro to self-pleasure' - our verdict on Share Satisfaction's Coco
From "light flutter" to strong, Share Satisfaction's Coco has the goods
Why F*** Cancer is not just a slogan on a T-shirt for leading doctor Claire McLlintock
A collaboration with Workshop is Claire McLintock's way of fighting back.
Reboot is an old show in a new show's clothing
Greg and Zanna review Reboot, a show that's not as original as it wants us to think.
Diana Wichtel: Iran, the US, Russia ... welcome to Gilead
We're in this together. But how did the 21st century stay in Gilead?
All about Eve: Antonia Prebble on playing a kick-ass Hitchcock heroine
"She's this blonde bombshell; that's part of her allure but she's so much more than that"
Simon Wilson: Trigger warning: The town square and the 15-minute city
Bright ideas that make cities better: Auckland's beautiful little town square.
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Max Hastings describes Operation Zapata, Cuban Missile Crisis' precursor.
Lena Dunham channels a voice of a (different) generation
Lena Dunham finally tackles the project she dreamed of since the start of Girls.
Whangārei Fringe Festival: solo shows of hauora, hope and lots of chalk
'I'm constantly trying to understand what it is to be a colonised Māori wahine'
The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading
Mel C talks to Eleanor Black, quick questions with poet laureate Chris Tse.
The Farewell: A great American movie, or a great Chinese one?
Greg and Zanna review a Chinese movie about America, or possibly the opposite.
Kiwi former Home and Away star on surviving the darkness
Former soap star Rob Kipa-Williams has changed his life and wants to change yours too.
Dumplings: now a firm Kiwi favourite, the tasty filled pouches have changed since the 80s
A look at the history of dumplings in New Zealand.
Something for nothing: Mapping the rise of the 'little library' movement
"There's no profit, no ulterior motive. It's something purely altruistic."
"The prevalent view is of the repressed, oppressed Arab woman, as if mini skirts mean freedom"
Wellington-born, Beirut-based correspondent Rania Abouzeid reports from the front line.
Steve Braunias: The great unmasked
Masking up: " I don't know the science but I just can't be bothered anymore," Braunias
Design for Living: The beautiful bridge that won't change the neighbourhood
Bright ideas that make cities better: Can you stop the new destroying the old?