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Climate collection deals imaginatively with real world-changing events

Australasian authors brought together in a climate change anthology

Dance me to the end of love

Before the pandemic, we danced. By Sarah Daniell.

Elizabeth Cracroft on addiction: 'It was just tragic and embarrassing'

A rehab centre is the unlikely setting for a new improv comedy by a recovering alcoholic.

Mr Morris reviewed: The verdict on Michael Meredith's new Britomart restaurant

In praise of pineapple, black pudding and a restaurant with heart.

One marriage, two movie reviews: Sylvie's Love

Married couple Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review new movie Sylvie's Love.

Loneliness is a state that repels: Greg Bruce on the pain and pleasure of solitude

Greg Bruce tries to connect with the author of The Lonely City, Olivia Laing.

Soundtrack to my life: Kody Nielson

Kody Nielson on the songs that shaped him.

Love in a queer climate

Ammonite explores a slow-burning LGBT romance with suggestive intimacy and tension

'It makes me feel grounded when I wear it, because it was something my dad treasured'

Taane Mete, dancer and yoga teacher on his taonga - a gift his mother gave his father.

Cultural appropriation: What it means and why it matters

Navigating the social minefield of cultural "ownership".

One marriage, two movie reviews: Malcolm & Marie

Married couple Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review Malcolm & Marie.

Ada reviewed: A pasta epiphany at a former convent

"If the fazzoletti is a mistress, the cavatelli is the mother of your child."

New Zealand women open up about raw, heartbreaking stories to help teens battling mental health

Two books to help children and teenagers prepare to return to school.

Isolation for good and ill: Will Dean's forest-born fourth novel returns to the Fens

Struck by the story's idea at midnight in a forest, Dean's new novel is aptly unsettling.

'Over time, he was widely and simply regarded as a local.'

How the homeless man made Te Atatū his home - briefly

Toxic puffery: A frenemy falls in Polly Phillips' My Best Friend's Murder

Polly Phillips' novel takes its inspiration from Gossip Girl, 90210 and Sex and the City.