Gone girl
There was a photo of her that I propped up on the bedside table, taken when she was just a few weeks old, lying tucked up in her crib and looking to the right with a poised smile. I looked at the 17-year-old in her bed and then at the baby in her crib, and back again, and again, one facing right and the other, older one facing left, and I couldn't really tell the difference - both were fragile and small, my only child in a chamber of bedsheets.
She said, "Can you bring the three deer to the airport?" She meant the little porcelain figurines on her dressing table. I thought long and hard about this request. I wanted the three deer to stay exactly where they were, at peace in a schoolgirl's bedroom. Why should they have to travel to a distant city and relocate to a university student's bedroom? I had every right to hold on to them. My house, my deer.
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A hint of mermaids
Erin Palmisano's latest novel once again has food and romance at the heart of its well-plotted story.
Execution over innovation
Big and bold ideas are fine, but being the best beats being first.
Something's wrong with all of them
Engaging dissection of the 20th-century novel likely to send the reader in search for the book under discussion.
Cell warfare
A NZ trial using immunotherapy to beat a form of blood cancer is expanding after promising results – and it's hoped the 'gold standard' treatment will soon be widely available.
The virus that stole all the smells
In this edited extract from The Forgotten Sense, Jonas Olofsson traces the rise in anosmia as a result of Covid-19 infections.
When caring is ‘woke'
Some years ago, I sat in a small plane circling over Punta del Este in Uruguay. There was a delay and we sat in tense silence until we began our descent. Outside the tiny airport, a taxi ferried us past private Lear jets; these had been the cause of the hold-up. The driver pointed to two planes side by side. \"This one is a Trump plane.\"
Getting along swimmingly
The presenters of Endangered Species Aotearoa spend a fair bit of time on and in the water in the second season.
That clingy feeling
Our pets display the same types of attachment behaviours as we do, or so it seems.
The famous furred
A peaceful little spot in LA is the final resting place for the pets of some of Hollywood's biggest names.
