A picture book for adults: Where lobsters go, humankind may follow
A picture book for adults
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest fromCanvas magazine
Love and death at altitude: The tragedy behind the awe-inspiring doco The Alpinist
Brette Harrington on free climbing and her late partner, climbing star Marc-André Leclerc
Putting a Māori lens over a classic collection of myths
Paul Little looks at a new version of a well-known Māori myth collection
Sonya Wilson: 'I'm a sucker for a good opening line'
Sonya Wilson on her books, aimed at all ages
The disaster of Woodstock 99, now on film
Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage.
Greg Bruce: How dancing TikToks and the voice of Natalie Merchant are getting me through lockdown
Is an obsession with music and dance a good way to deal with lockdown stress?
The Barcelona superblocks: a city for the future
Barcelona's bold experiment to close its inner-city streets to non-essential traffic.
What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide
Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.
Steve Braunias: Love in the time of something resembling cholera
Auckland remains an archipelago of the infected, in their shelters of driftwood and kelp.
Anthony Doerr: 'A fable is a drug.'
'Story and books are a vehicle of how we communicate between generations.'
After Dark, by Annette Lees: 'The parallel night world is as close as our front door'
Annette Lees evokes the power of the night
'We must find a way to reach those yet to come forward for their vaccination'
'I'm not sure medical school prepared me to be a doctor in a global pandemic.'
Some data for the attention of tonight's referee Matthew Carley
The Springboks have wasted enough time, Greg Bruce writes to ref Matthew Carley.
On the Friday Night Lights bandwagon, 15 years later
Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Friday Night Lights.
Taonga: Artist Sarah Smuts-Kennedy's baptism by fire
"There's nothing like fire to initiate you into listening to the energies of the land."
Joan Mackenzie: 'I often like a bit of history with my fiction'
On fiction with a touch of history and an astonishing read.
Toothbrush, knickers, weed: Auckland film-maker Rachel Ross on "Green"
From post-lockdown playdates to death metal in Iran, Show Me Shorts is back on screen.
Michael Gandolfini on the riddle of Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark
New York Times: James Gandolfini's son takes on his father's iconic role in new film.
Design for living: "The trick is to be fearless"
Bright ideas that make cities better: Florentijn Hofman's Selfie Panda in Sichuan.
What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide
Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.
Diana Wichtel: John Key, Paul Henry reckons a 'blast of nostalgia about a blokey, heroic past'
John Key reckons everywhere - as if it was the Queen's Christmas message
Tattoos and taboos in Chinese TV comedy-drama
Actor and writer Perlina Lau investigates history and taboos in new Chinese TV show
Reading is a class act for kids young and old
The joy of reading to students and the politics of question time
Susan Paris: 'This year has been about renewing my vows with New Zealand literature'
The co-editor of Skinny Dip is renewing my vows with New Zealand literature.
New book shows the beauty of slowing down to watch the bees
Bee lovers come together in word and image
What does it mean to be human in an often inhumane world?
The first poetry collection from Janet Newman goes beyond contemporary farming.
Owen Eastwood's Belonging resounds in the pandemic world
Owen Eastwood found a sense of belonging by being an outsider
A movie about paradise, starring people who hate it
Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Some Kind of Heaven.
Toni Street on losing three siblings: 'We are a close family because of what happened to us'
Toni Street and her mother Wendy talk of surviving a life of great suffering.
Design for Living: Unlocking joy with the apparently impossible
Bright ideas that make cities better: Will Alsop's art and design building in Toronto.
What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide
Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.
Steve Braunias: Island living in a time of lockdown
We'll get there in the end, writes Steve Braunias
This isn't your conventional whodunnit
In Samira Sedira's People Like Them, issues of class, race and jealousy are at the fore.
Never mind shallow pop aesthetics, Nirvana's album was the centre of gravity
Nirvana didn't discuss social issues or themes – the medium, the music, was the message.