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Even the hummus looks like a supermodel: Restaurants to check out this weekend

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'I wrote it for Māori and Māori kids because we don't have enough stories that represent us'

Shilo Kino's debut novel The Pōrangi Boy is a reflection, in many ways, of her own life.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Edited extract from a new biography of Bob Dylan

What goes around ... life in a loop

Life in a loop examined in Sue Orr's second novel

Will the feel-good movie event of the year make you feel good?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie turn their attention to In The Heights.

Glenda Kane: 'I often time-travel to my childhood'

The world needs young female feistiness combined with wisdom, says Glenda Kane

'It's all very good advice, except "Don't mess too much with your hair"

Auckland University astrophysicist Heloise Stevance on the music that's shaped her life.

"Racism is like a cluster bomb for us here in Aotearoa"

Polynesian Panther and Pacific academic Dr Melani Anae on healing from the dawn raids.

'Someone asked what I was reading and I barely knew where to begin'

A novel, poetry, an audiobook and a kids' book are constants for Gemma Browne

Is this the Frenchiest non-French movie ever made?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review The Man in the Hat.

A deep dive into lies and secrets in debut novel

Lies and secrets at the heart of a damaged family lead to an interesting story

Plastic fantastic: artist Judy Darragh's riotous new show

"I'm going to decorate the bejesus out of something!"

Diana Wichtel: Old tropes can go away

When anti-Semitism isn't racism - or is it?

Patrick Gower on P, politics and almost losing an eye

Patrick Gower talks about the power of listening - and of being heard.

How musician Julia Deans found the love of her life in Australia

A stray kitten helped the former Fur Patrol singer through some of her darkest days.

Kim Knight on what her grandma taught her about life and death

Kim Knight on her last conversation with the matriarch she learned to love later in life.