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Sound check

A new app is giving hope to, s6me of the more than 200,00Q'people who suffer from tinnitus.

Big in Japan

The first adaptation of samurai epic Shogun made television history. The new remake goes deeper.

In MacGowan's wake

Lisa O’Neill who sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral is bringing her distinctive sound to Womad.

Fifth symphony

Composer John Psathas talks about the careful thought and cross-cultural collaboration that went into a work to be performed by the NZSO marking the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Love in the murder factory

An extraordinary romance was somehow able to blossom amid Auschwitz’s horrific conveyor belt of death’.

Words do not fail her

Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear dementia is a delight to read.

A touch of magic

Christchurch writer spins an enchanting story around shape-shifting kelpies.

You say you want a revolution

Beginning with the Arab Spring, the 2010s ushered in a new dawn of protest. This lucid account of recent political and social history explains why the uprisings failed.

(S)mall fortunes

What was intended as a pedestrian-friendly version of European street life has become the bane of many shoppers' lives.

A class of their own

Dontt dismiss the bottom-feeders’ in today’s schools history shows us the battlers can make it through, with some focused guidance.

A blank canvas

For Melbourne-based Richard Lewer, discovering the brutal history of the Waikato War meant confronting the silence he encountered in his Kirikiriroa upbringing.

Primary colours

The presidential primaries set the stage for a November rematch that most American voters don’t want, but seem unable to avert.

Green ticket to ride

She has geckos behind her bread board, long-tailed bats and eels on her property and she drives an electric all-terrain vehicle. Is Celia Wade-Brown the perfect Green MP?

Ahead of the curvature

Research suggests declining bone health may have links to brain disease. What can we do to slow these processes?

Treading water

Even some of our national parks are failing the bare-minimum water-quality standards.

What's your poison?

A global survey of recreational drug use can help policymakers and consumers to reduce risk.

The King and I

Sofia Coppola delivers a poignant portrait of the powerless Queen of Graceland.

A new purple patch

Acclaimed novel and movie gets a stunning musical treatment.

Outdoor pursuit

Eric Bana and director Robert Connolly talk about why detective mystery The Dry 2 is much wetter than their hit original.

Grin and hear it

Radiohead offshoot's solid new LP, more high drama from Future Islands.

Popping his cork

The National's frontman Matt Berninger on his need for close audience interaction, and the gravitational pull of Taylor Swift

Truth will out

Compelling stories of those who are determined to defy the Communist Party line to expose tyranny and suffering.

Wheels coming off

First-time novelist takes readers along with four young expats on a satisfying if tense Italian road trip.

The one who stayed behind

Kiwi expat delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel inspired by an Australian icon.

Art in high places

In the Queensberry Hills between Cromwell and Wänaka, the Poison Creek Sculpture Project is enriching Central Otago's cultural scene.

The pain that remains

Former MasterChef contestant Alice Taylor says finally putting a name to the cause of her agony was just a beginning.

Hold the line, caller

Fifty years on, RNZ National listeners need have no fear that the station's signature bird call faces extermination.

What's the wAlt?

NZ needs to act as the talk of the technology world quickly becomes a key tool of business and government.

Entreaties of Waitangi

In its short time in office, the government has set the scene for a fiery commemoration of New Zealand's national day.

Boarding school bluff

In bygone days, harassed parents used to threaten their offspring with boarding school as the ultimate Dickensian punishment for persistent misbehaviour.