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Soundtrack to my life: Kody Nielson

Kody Nielson on the songs that shaped him.

Loneliness is a state that repels: Greg Bruce on the pain and pleasure of solitude

Greg Bruce tries to connect with the author of The Lonely City, Olivia Laing.

One marriage, two movie reviews: Sylvie's Love

Married couple Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review new movie Sylvie's Love.

Love in a queer climate

Ammonite explores a slow-burning LGBT romance with suggestive intimacy and tension

California dreaming: Wilson Phillips' very best harmony pop

Steve Braunias dubs the girl band's third studio album a shimmering masterpiece.

Colonialism, confrontation and coming together

Photographer Jos Wheeler shares photos from pivotal moments in our history, in Aotearoa.

Books provide a 'virtual adventure' for Splore's Emma Herbert Vickers

Emma Herbert Vickers on what she's reading

Book review: Thrills abound in silhouette

Laura Purcell's mystery finds thrills in the art of silhouette-making

Promptitude and perfection: The rarity of Bryan Washington's first novel

Bryan Washington has penned something beautifully deceptive, writes David Herkt

New Zealand women open up about raw, heartbreaking stories to help teens battling mental health

Two books to help children and teenagers prepare to return to school.

Isolation for good and ill: Will Dean's forest-born fourth novel returns to the Fens

Struck by the story's idea at midnight in a forest, Dean's new novel is aptly unsettling.

'Over time, he was widely and simply regarded as a local.'

How the homeless man made Te Atatū his home - briefly

Toxic puffery: A frenemy falls in Polly Phillips' My Best Friend's Murder

Polly Phillips' novel takes its inspiration from Gossip Girl, 90210 and Sex and the City.

Mind the gap: The dangers of NZ's growing wealth divide

Max Rashbrooke on his groundbreaking research into New Zealand's damaging wealth divide.

Dennis Conner doesn't want to talk but he's not about to let that stop him

Dennis Conner is 78 and long retired but, as Greg Bruce discovers, he's far from retiring.

One marriage, two reviews: Pretend it's a City

Married couple Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review new Netflix show Pretend it's a City.

The sleuth who outfoxed Putin

How Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins outed spies and outwitted Putin.

"It drives me to my knees": Flash fiction writer Jack Remiel Cottrell

The award-winning writer on music that moves and inspires him.