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Butcherbird: The magpies are behaving strangely

Strange songbirds and dark secrets are plentiful in Cassie Hart's new horror novel.

Stars spill on what it's really like to work with Wes Anderson

Times: The director treats the biggest stars like family and makes everyone eat together.

Siobhan Harvey reviews Sleeping with Stones: confessional and cathartic

Sleeping with Stones is an adept poetry collection spanning the realms of grief

Sigourney Weaver: My Salinger Year actor on her first love - literature

There is a great crisis in film-making, Sigourney Weaver tells Joanna Mathers.

Eleanor Black resolves complex problems in her downtime through reading crime fiction

Crime and personal essays are lockdown fodder for Eleanor Black

Ainsley Gardiner: film has the power to make you feel connected

Māori film-maker Ainsley Gardiner on her career's evolution

A novel of dark humour and cutting observations

John Boyne delivers a novel of dark humour and cutting observations

How horrifying is The Exorcist, 48 years on?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review The Exorcist.

Brightest star: Dame Jane Campion on The Power of the Dog

Dame Jane Campion talks to Joanna Mathers about her brooding new Western.

Celeste Barber: 'There's no spaghetti without Luther, there's no Luther without spaghetti.'

Celeste Barber's favourite songs

How to become an artist: Four creatives share their non-traditional secrets

Here's how to bypass the traditional art world in the search for creative freedom.

Restaurant review: Gunusu, Wellington's Tibetan-Yemeni hole-in-the-wall

At Gunusu, Wellington's Tibetan-Yemeni hole-the-the-wall, the coffee is yellow.

The female experience and the talisman of food

A collection of stories to savour by an award-winning writer

Scenes From a Marriage hits close to home

Some scenes from a marriage in response to Scenes From a Marriage.

Kirsten McDougall's dreary apocalypse: 'You can't just pussyfoot around anymore'

She's a Killer is intended as an alarm for a New Zealand in environmental crisis.

Hundertwasser Art Centre will build pride in town

Whangārei is discovering a new momentum driven by the Hundertwasser Centre.