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Strange Fruit, Billie and the FBI

"She was the first one to scream." Billie Holiday and Strange Fruit in a new film.

Into the wild green yonder

"We're very serious in what we're doing" - Gandalf on a growing passion.

Finally, the most diverse Ockhams shortlist ever

One word: finally.

Diana Wichtel: how Covid 19 has polarised TV shows - and society

The changing society wrought by Covid

I did a boudoir photoshoot and this is what I learnt about my body

"It feels like you're giving the middle finger to those societal demands."

Paddy Free: "The pounamu I wear around my neck is also my wedding ring"

Electronic musician Paddy Free on the one material possession he truly treasures.

One marriage, two movie reviews: Rushmore

Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review newly-available to streaming classic film Rushmore.

Danyl McLauchlan's confessional for the age of anxiety

A trained science writer turns his focus inward in a new collection of essays.

Daughter, 14. Steve Braunias marks a birthday

The joys of turning 14.

Alice Te Punga Somerville: English by name, English by nature?

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki) on why English breaks her heart.

Eleanor Black: Noteworthy memoirs from the American South

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Ben Sanders returns: Structures imagined and real

Author Ben Sanders on juggling two working lives

Insatiable: A modernised (and more debaucherous) Bridget Jones's Diary

Daisy Buchanan's new novel is utterly unashamed.

What Janna Ruth is reading: manga and urban fantasy's heavy hitters

Her list includes a reimagined version of the Three Musketeers and a baseball comic.

'I ran to the pool's edge, and jumped. And sank.'

'I ran straight across the concrete to the pool's edge, and jumped. And sank.'

Electrifying the train lines: The touring performer energising public transport

At his performance you'll laugh, you'll sing, you'll learn a lot about public transport.