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The Blair Witch Project at 25: The film that blurred reality and fiction

New York Times: Did audiences really believe The Blair Witch Project was real?

How to write truly hot, non-cringey sex scenes (and 9 books that get it right)

Times: Author Kate Weinberg searches for the secret of really good sex – on the page.

Moon Unit Zappa: ‘I was a social experiment for my parents’

Frank Zappa’s daughter tells some home truths about life as the child of a rock star.

Why John Mulaney is conspicuously absent from Anna Marie Tendler's memoir

Times: Memoir details stay in psychiatric hospital after famous comedian husband left her.

The Klitschkos: ‘If we fail in Ukraine, you’re going to be next’

Times: Legendary boxers, turned political heavyweights, in the fight of their lives.

Inside the worst three weeks of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign

New York Times: People around Trump see a candidate knocked off his bearings.

'I’m on my way out': Suffering patients say right-to-die law still doesn't help them

The family of a woman who was declined for assisted dying say the law is 'ridiculous'.

'A cruel hoax': How a minister, a property mogul, a ‘good bloke’, and the pandemic combined to resolve a 170-year injustice

Some of a Wānaka forest with popular trails can now become 150 homes on prime real estate

High-stakes diplomacy: Inside the deal that led to a blockbuster US-Russia prisoner swap

Months of complex negotiations resulted in the largest prisoner exchange since thCold War.

Who was freed in the prisoner swap between Russia and the West?

New York Times: A list of the 24 prisoners who were exchanged and their backgrounds.

Secret bidding war: How the All Blacks ditched Nike for Adidas – twice

The inside story of how a $50 million rugby apparel deal was won.

Olympic surfing comes to a ‘poisoned’ paradise

New York Times: The Olympic surfing event is shadowed by a nuclear leagacy.

Stalkers, disease and doubt: A gymnast's hard road back to the Olympics

New York Times: 'It was so scary. I didn’t know it then, but the old Suni was gone.'

New Zealand Olympic medals 2024: How we compare to the world

Find out which athletes are bringing home medals.

Meet Hollywood’s favourite witch (who also dates a movie star)

Times: Kate Tomas, spiritual adviser to the A-list, talks spells, seduction and sexism.

Simone Biles is back, and she's done being judged

New York Times: With 37 medals, the gymnast ignores online hate at her third Olympics.