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Why teenage girls aren't going to take it anymore.
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Taonga: Mara TK on his kōauau, a traditional bone flute
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How an existential psychotherapist changed my life
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Going for gold - top Olympic-themed movies
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We Are Lady Parts: This is not a comedy about Muslim women
New comedy about a Muslim punk band changes the game by not changing a thing.
The family link behind the new Bounty book
Fletcher Christian's great (x6) grandson has written a book re-examining the Bounty story.
Kerry Harrison's novel focuses on the season of unreason
Novel brings the Red Squad era back to life
Shooting for the stars: Reuben Paterson's dazzling crystal waka is finally unveiled
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'Psychedelics became a door in the wall, a way to go somewhere without having to go to the airport'
Michael Pollan on taking a more enlightened approach to drugs.
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Diana Wichtel gives the Covid-19 vaccine her best shot
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'I had crossed a bomb-site of rubble and craters and collapsing cliffs left by vanished ice'
'The higher I climbed, the more the southerly intensified. It shoved me in the face.'