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A movie about paradise, starring people who hate it

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Some Kind of Heaven.

Toni Street on losing three siblings: 'We are a close family because of what happened to us'

Toni Street and her mother Wendy talk of surviving a life of great suffering.

Design for Living: Unlocking joy with the apparently impossible

Bright ideas that make cities better: Will Alsop's art and design building in Toronto.

What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide

Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.

Steve Braunias: Island living in a time of lockdown

We'll get there in the end, writes Steve Braunias

This isn't your conventional whodunnit

In Samira Sedira's People Like Them, issues of class, race and jealousy are at the fore.

"I make a deal with God. He stands on my verandah and asks after my husband."

The stunningly strange states of Paige Clarke's short story collection She Is Haunted.

Never mind shallow pop aesthetics, Nirvana's album was the centre of gravity

Nirvana didn't discuss social issues or themes – the medium, the music, was the message.

Sebastian Faulks' Austrian trilogy part two: love as a kind of puzzle to be solved

Sebastian Faulks says James Bond boosted his pension fund

Homegrown Happiness: Your guide to gardening and good food

The art of goodness from garden to table

'Tino rangatiratanga is at the core of who we are as Māori'

You are a word or a phrase in te reo - five prominent Māori on what resonates

'That is what music's meant to do, have an emotional impact on me'

The five songs that shaped Jordan Rakei

Can this new series squeeze any more juice out of the Lewinsky scandal?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Impeachment: American Crime Story.

'Being lucky enough to know some of the stories behind the fiction makes it fascinating to see their transformation

David Hill on what he's reading - a focus on NZ writers

'You don't go to Berlin to set up a cosy house in the suburbs and have kids'

Bridget van der Zijpp's third novel sees a middle-aged novelist throw caution to the wind.

'I've got nothing to be ashamed of': Dairy farmers under siege

Two fifth-generation farming families fight back against the demonisation of dairying.