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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.

Putting it together: The threads that led to the fall of Tiger Woods

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review the new HBO documentary Tiger.

'I was such a weirdo': Gin Wigmore on the songs that made her

Rock's wild child talks us through the songs that got under her skin.

Staying Alive : Sir Barry Gibb reflects on life at 74

"You can't make dreams come true unless you try" - Sir Barry Gibb on music, love and loss.

Criminal minds: The chilling tales of a forensic psychiatrist

Considering becoming a forensic psychiatrist? "You need a strong stomach — and stamina."

Summer reads: Where the critics ate...

A look back at some of the best Canvas restaurant reviews of the year.

Notorious RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty and law

In a toxic pond of politics, the late US Supreme Court Justice was an optimist.

Steve Braunias: Why I'm contemplating Sisyphus among the mangroves of West Auckland

As we get back to the grind of a new year, here is a metaphor for hopeless endeavour.

Words take flight in Margaret Atwood's poems to her late husband

Margaret Atwood immerses readers in the magical power of story - even in poetry