Creamed tripe with onions, giblet soup and sausage apples: Steve Braunias cooks the books

If you think joke books are a laugh, try old cookbooks.

A twist in the tale: Steve Braunias on the trial of the mum who killed her children and hid their bodies in suitcases

The courtroom realisation that changed everything: "I have never seen anything like it."

Steve Braunias on the latest Scott Watson case decision: ‘Smug complacency and stupid intransigence’

A response to the Court of Appeal's decision not to quash Scott Watson's convictions.

Steve Braunias: Father’s Day is for the living and the lost

The Father's Day ritual of love is like a platonic Valentine.

Steve Braunias on the trial of getting a visa for America

The trials and tribulations of applying for a US visa in the Trump era.

Alone and vulnerable: Steve Braunias on the murder of a lone security guard

The violent and senseless death is raising questions about the security industry.

Steve Braunias: Why Jacinda Ardern is ruining my life

Our former PM has stood in the way of bookshelf domination.

Murder, he wrote: Steven Braunias on covering NZ’s most high-profile crime cases

"I've spent quite a lot of my professional life these past 20 years at murder trials."

She was on the spectrum, he was a 'fat chubby nerd': Madison Ashton on Polkinghorne

After the Polkinghorne trial, Steve Braunias sat down to lunch with Madison Ashton.

Outsider art: Steve Braunias on the global interest in NZ’s ‘Picasso’

Untrained and unable to speak, Susan Te Kahurangi King is one of our greatest artists.

Steve Braunias: ‘A funeral is a special event - you only die once’

Steve Braunias on family gatherings, rainy days and the long, sharp claws of grief.

Steve Braunias: An ode to Auckland

A carefree Thursday to share with my kid, 18, on the yellow brick roads of Auckland.

Steve Braunias: A new way to save the world one egg at a time

The science of wateregging, a new concept for egg longevity.

NZ artist’s relentless pursuit of beauty as he battles ugly illness

Famed for his neon works and public art, even serious illness can't blunt Paul Hartigan.

Steve Braunias: Artist enters purgatory

The value of an artist soars after their death, this is their purgatory.

Steve Braunias: An ode to fleeting visits

A fleeting visit by a daughter on a university break makes the world a little brighter.

Steve Braunias goes ape on a binge-watching movie marathon

The Planet of the Apes has had many iterations since 1968. Steve Braunias watched them all

Steve Braunias: Made redundant, at my age

There is something embarrassing about being thrown out the door at 64, but it's happened.

Steve Braunias: A strange new status as a distant relation

A month after his daughter left home, Steven Braunias visits.

Steve Braunias: The lovely bones

The angst over what to do with a leftover lamb bone to keep it out of landfill.

‘She’s leaving home’: Steve Braunias farewells his daughter

She said, ‘I love you, Dad.’ And then she was gone.

Steve Braunias: The Administrator always rings twice

Being appointed administrator of his brother's estate was sobering for Steve Braunias.

Home again: Steve Braunias returns to the Listener

After 20 years, the Listener’s bad boy has returned.