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Eleanor Black resolves complex problems in her downtime through reading crime fiction

Crime and personal essays are lockdown fodder for Eleanor Black

Ainsley Gardiner: film has the power to make you feel connected

Māori film-maker Ainsley Gardiner on her career's evolution

The activist behind the new film taking on big dairy

Activist Chris Huriwai talks about his new film, Milked, and what he sees out the window.

A novel of dark humour and cutting observations

John Boyne delivers a novel of dark humour and cutting observations

How horrifying is The Exorcist, 48 years on?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review The Exorcist.

'You are all just one diagnosis away from being me'

Facing stage 4 breast cancer, Charlotte Lockhart has found a different way to live.

Restaurant review: Takeaway comfort from Cotto

Lockdown getting you down? Just add butter (and spinach, sage and goat's cheese).

Design for Living: The 'propaganda planting' that changed a town

Bright ideas to make towns and cities better: turn your community into a vege garden.

Canvas: Dr. Joel Rindelaub's Covid rap

Auckland University chemist Ph.D. Dr Joel Rindelaub's Covid rap. Video / Dean Purcell

Scenes From a Marriage hits close to home

Some scenes from a marriage in response to Scenes From a Marriage.

Hundertwasser Art Centre will build pride in town

Whangārei is discovering a new momentum driven by the Hundertwasser Centre.

Kirsten McDougall's dreary apocalypse: 'You can't just pussyfoot around anymore'

She's a Killer is intended as an alarm for a New Zealand in environmental crisis.

The female experience and the talisman of food

A collection of stories to savour by an award-winning writer

The view from my window: Rose Langbein

From New York to Wānaka: The inspiration behind her new cookbook with mum Annabel.

Alan Cumming: 'Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman made out in my living room'

Times: British actor Alan Cumming shares his celebrity secrets.

The best of the best wines of 2021

Canvas' resident wine expert Yvonne Lorkin picks the top wines of the year.

Going to work by gondola: Make transport fun and people will use it

Bright ideas that make cities better: Medellin's aerial answer to isolated housing.

Steve Braunias: living on the edge with climate change, nuclear warfare, a pandemic

My house faces the same risk of plague as every house on the isthmus in 2021.