Latest from Canvas magazine

Is this New Zealand's most gifted child?

While most of his peers were still considering university, Tristan Pang was graduating.

Ashleigh Young: 'Boring others is part of being alive'

Ashleigh Young on why sharing comfortable silences - boring moments - are a sign of life.

Hayley Sproull steps into the Canvas confession box

Hayley Sproull on why she's proud of teaching Omani soldiers to march like NZers.

Explosive new drama: if the children are our future how far would we go for them?

The fall-out could be unpredictable - play's moral-dilemma leaves audiences gasping.

This is the winter of our content: The best of week one for NZIFF

Tom Augustine wraps up week one of the NZ International Film Festival.

How a $50k whisky tasting is scotched by imposter syndrome ... almost

Karl Puschmann suffers imposter syndrome at a rare whisky tasting. But gets over it.

Why won't Shorty Street's Chris Warner die already?

Calum Henderson reviews Shortland Street's winter season premiere

Why it's no bad thing to be bored

It's almost impossible to have nothing to do now, and that's a pity, says Joanna Mathers.

Author Adrian McKinty on the call(s) that changed his life

Author Adrian McKinty quit writing - then came the biggest break of his career.

Book review: Alafair Burke's The Better Sister

Greg Fleming reviews Alafair Burke's The Better Sister.

Who's the top contender for a Ngaio Marsh crime fiction award?

Crime pays? Greg Fleming on judging the 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards for NZ crime fiction.

Sensing popularity with new crime-psychic show

Calum Henderson reviews The InBetween for Canvas magazine

Ashleigh Young on New Zealand's rudest cafe owners

Rude man ... who cares? Rude woman ... bring it on, writes Ashleigh Young.

Ant Timpson is incredibly strange

If this is the last Incredibly Strange Film Festival, it's been a heck of a ride.

Births and deaths: the tragic story of China's one child policy

Award winning film director Nanfu Wang talks about her controversial documentary.

The Iceman Cometh - Greg Bruce on how to get out of driving

When BMW invited him to drive its cars on the Queenstown ice, Greg Bruce was not excited.