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Designing the future

New Zealand fashion designers Harris Tapper are making strides with HP+

Waitangi Day books special: Aotearoa writers on desert island books

Seventeen writers from Aotearoa talk about their top three favourite NZ books

Christos Tsiolkas auto-fiction excavation in search of beauty

In his new book is Christos Tsiolkas, the character, who also happens to be an author.

Te Tiriti and the New Zealand Wars – a wahine toa speaks

Waitangi Day: Te Tiriti and the New Zealand Wars – a wahine toa speaks

People Funny Boy: The Genius Of Lee 'Scratch' Perry: a journey around a true musical maverick

Lee 'Scratch' Perry - creative, charismatic visionary who shaped reggae king Bob Marley

Bryan Walpert: 'What's the reading life without a book of poems or six on the go as well?'

The books author Bryan Walpert has on his reading list

The View from My Window: Bess Wohl on how people-watching led to her play, Grand Horizons

How people watching led to Broadway - and to New Zealand

Hope and terror echo through the eras

One house, three time-frames. A symphonic triumph, writes Kiran Dass

Eleanor Black reviews a whodunnit focusing on human behaviour

Whodunnit delves into social, psychological and environmental factors

The new Shane Warne documentary: good if you like cricket

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review Shane.

Steve Braunias on learning to drive

Driving at last, Steve Braunias discovers a new way of life

Design for Living: Light rail and the green swale

Bright ideas to make cities better. This week: Green rail tracks on the roads.

How to harness the power of negative thinking

Sick of the #grateful, 'good vibes only' crew? You're not alone

The euphoric glamour of Happy Hour

Marlowe Granados' sultry summer novel trades in hedonism.

Anne Kennedy knows just how far to stretch tone and form

The poet's new collection ignites language with a joyous intensity.

Jazz maestro Nathan Haines on his biggest hit and getting stood up by Deee-Lite

The squire for hire runs us through the soundtrack to his life.