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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.