Gripping NZ medical drama gets film director back behind the camera
Film director Christine Jeffs on returning to the big screen after more than a decade away
When it comes to gluten, are we being taken on a wild wheat-free ride?
The truth about gluten: Separating fact from fiction.
Politics
Danyl McLauchlan: Doomed debate around Act’s Treaty Principles Bill turns up heat on polarising issue
Like Don Corleone in The Godfather, Seymour’s offer to Māori is this: nothing.
What it’s really like at a Trump rally
Plunging into the parallel universe that is a Donald Trump rally.
Opinion
Guyon Espiner on Luxon’s MMP woes: Our political culture, not the system, is broken
Changing our political culture could make MMP far more successful.
Trump campaign attack on Tim Walz’s military record hides ugly truths
US election brings out ugliest most cynical expression of who loves the military the most.
Duncan Garner: Our kids aren’t soft, they’re distracted, addicted and uninspired
Sometimes our kids need to be told to toughen up, but there's far more to it.
New Zealand
Listener weekly quiz: September 18
If you were at a honbasho, what sport would you be watching?
Moving mountains: The maunga sacrificed for the Waikato Wars
Poet & GP Glenn Colquhoun on memories stirred by walking Great South Rd.
Orange Ohinemuri a wake-up call on historic mining waste
Colour outshone toxicity, but flow of mine waste into historical river is a wake-up call.
Enterprise & Tech
Health
When it comes to gluten, are we being taken on a wild wheat-free ride?
The truth about gluten: Separating fact from fiction.
Little-known organ is a key part of your immune system so why does ageing shrink it?
International efforts are underway to find strategies to restore thymus function.
Struggling with dry eye disease? A space experiment which might provide a breakthrough
Otago doctor ventures into space to combat earthly dry eye epidemic.
Life
What late bloomers can tell you about success and reinventing your life
The Second Act Revolution: Why you're never too old to succeed.
The Good Life: A gawping tourist’s return to Brideshead and other wanderings
Flytes of fancy and melancholic nostalgia for better times.
Hormones and moods: How men and women experience the emotional roller coaster
The ebb and flow of hormones affect high and lows in men as well as women.
Culture
How NZ artist cartographer is transforming our world view
Ruth Watson's art meets cartography to redefine world maps and the universe itself.
Orchestra Wellington revives forgotten Schmitt ballet with Stravinsky echoes
This may well be the first time The Tragedy of Salomé has been heard in Aotearoa.
Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp sticks to familiar for Dunedin concerts
Karin Schaupp is recording music she genuinely loves.
Entertainment
Meet the new queens of the Indie stage
Three talented Aotearoa artists launch confident, accomplished albums.
Demi Moore’s Oscar-worthy performance in grisly horror about getting old
Demi Moore is back and in the role of a life-time.
Gripping NZ medical drama gets film director back behind the camera
Film director Christine Jeffs on returning to the big screen after more than a decade away
Books
Virtuoso novel traverses life from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day London
British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's twelfth novel is already a bestseller.
The Instrumentalist is revisionist history, but it’s evocative, gripping and plausible
After reading Harriet Constable’s debut, listening to The Four Seasons will never be same.
Overlooked by history? William Dalrymple on the forgotten might of ancient India
Acclaimed UK author on why ancient India was the equal of China.
Crime
War crime: Why did a NZ WWII soldier gun down an innocent Japanese civilian?
Archivist Chris Adams details a senseless killing during post-WWII occupation of Japan.
30 years after the Bain murders: A reporter’s tale
Kirsty Cameron recalls the tea, tears, and tragedy in Dunedin after the Bain murders.
“Robin was no killer”: Michael Bain on the Bain murders
In an exclusive 2009 article, Michael Bain wrote candidly about his brother Robin.
World
Harrowing tales of migrants trying to enter US highlight political failure
Behind the scary headlines are a million human stories.
Nazism rears its head as Germany reaches a turning point
The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, does not bode well.
The rise of Kava in America: Innovative or cultural blasphemy?
The revered Pasifika drink is under threat from US-grown crops and heady new mixes.
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