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'Hope is an act of defiance': Miranda Harcourt on avoiding paranoia and negativity

The long tail of Witi Ihimaera Smiler's The Whale Rider

Meet the tiny indie publisher behind the New Zealand novel of the year

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending October 2

TV & Film

‘I was fighting for my life’: Rose Matafeo chased by sheep on Taskmaster NZ

Is it possible to eat well for less anymore?

New to Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

The New Zealand bush is the real star of Brad Pitt’s new movie

Review: New family drama This Is Home is a beautiful, gentle gem

Review: New doco Meet the Preppers will make you stop scrolling and get ready

Books

The Unity Books children's book review roundup for spring

'That's how you cheat death, Māui': Terri Te Tau's spacetime tips and tricks

Seven things we learned at Wellington's Verb festival

Haunting Barbadoes Street: John Summers’ lost Christchurch

‘When it comes to war, human rights and genocide, it all starts with language’

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending September 25

Music

If Laneway’s 2027 poster feels slight, there’s a reason for that

NZ is spending millions to lure the big acts. Is it working?

‘Don’t talk to artists’: Confessions of a concert security guard

Review: The Beths enter their greatest hits era with the ‘By Request’ tour

Reb Fountain is voting for love this year

Jon Toogood wouldn’t change a thing, even the parts that sucked

Stage

‘I can’t wait to put them in a play’: Dave Armstrong on the benefits of meeting insufferable people

Amit Ohdedar doesn’t regret a single moment living in New Zealand

Pork & Poll Taxes reclaims New Zealand’s forgotten history on stage

Urzila Carlson on why having good manners trumps all

Guy Montgomery on the secret to creativity and the power of the phone call

Has the arts sector ever done it this hard?

Visual Arts

Inside the Westlake Boys High School sewing club

Meet the artist who created a new portrait every day for a year

How Hugo Koha Lindsay turned colonial blackboards into works of Māori resistance

The inside story of Simon the sign guy, Wellington’s favourite street artist

‘We are oppressed by a brutal bourgeoisie’: What 96 years of living has taught painter Jacqueline Fahey

If fashion is art, why doesn’t CNZ fund it?

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