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No love for a cold climate

'It's hard to be an island girl when you live in Wellington.'

'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.'

Why is this movie about books causing complicated feelings?

Greg and Zanna investigate their feelings over a deeply unfunny movie starring a comedian.

Becky Kuek: 'We all lost our minds, singing every single lyric'

TV creator Becky Kuek picks the five bangers that mean the most to her.

Greg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authors

Characters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing

Greg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habits

I like to read - I really do - but do I really?

'For the first time winter becomes too much'

'You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'

'Boy, this got deep' - R.E.M's Michael Stipe on art, politics and sexuality

Karl Puschmann chats to the former frontman about his new lockdown inspired book.

Bo Burnham: Inside is a work of genius

In the midst of a lockdown mental health crisis, Bo Burnham has made something profound.

'I'm very keen to know how to increase or maintain the health of my brain'

Books about increasing efficiency attract writer Natalie Sisson

No ordinary life: "It was history, you know?"

Hokianga's octogenarian novelist Judith Reinken.

'If my house caught on fire, my signed, first edition copy of Hone Tuwhare's No Ordinary Sun is the one thing I'd take with me'

The most difficult thing about writing this play has been making things up!

From Russia, with lust, cocaine and tragedy

From memory, in the original, Anna and Vronsky never did lines of coke before having sex.

Even the hummus looks like a supermodel: Restaurants to check out this weekend

Looking for somewhere to eat this weekend? Find carrots worth crossing the isthmus for.

'I wrote it for Māori and Māori kids because we don't have enough stories that represent us'

Shilo Kino's debut novel The Pōrangi Boy is a reflection, in many ways, of her own life.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Edited extract from a new biography of Bob Dylan