Moctar in da house

Next year’s Womad brings the Hendrix of the desert” to NZ.

Songs for the planet

In his long-awaited new solo album, Brian Eno shares his concern for the environment.

A right royal to-do

As The Crown moves into the 1990s; the yet-to-screen season five has already drawn flak from the rich and famous.

Grey area

A trained neuroscientist looks inwards to find the origins of his sexual orientation.

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Change of 'Seasons’

A touring show hopes to change attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities.

A tale of two kitties

The Cat is completely in love with me, and me alone. This has always got Michele’s goat.

A different direction

How a screen-to-stage adaptation of classic thriller North by Northwest challenged the cast and creators behind the new Auckland Theatre Company production. b

Battle lines

The nuclear brinkmanship of 1962 has clear parallels with Vladimir Putin’s reckless behaviour in Ukraine 60 years on.

Booker’s Kiwi link

After a New Zealand education and accolades for his sport-themed first novel, Shehan Karunatilaka has won the big one.

Finding our feet

Will Mark Zuckerberg's huge gamble on the mass appeal of virtual-reality working and socialising have legs?

Covid aftershocks

Survivors of the disease are at increased risk of lingering impacts on both heart and brain health, follow-up studies suggest.

Master of his craft

Comedian Chris Parker has juggled stand-up, online videos, movies, TV shows and even a foray into fun with felt. Now he’s added a book to his CV.

Into the abyss

Anew local documentary claims that hundreds of thousands of Kiwis have been sucked into a vortex of disinformation.

Great Dane

Due to tour here in December, the formidably clever comedian, broadcaster and political activist Sandi Toksvig wears her brightness lightly.

10 billion reasons to be cheerful

What will the world be like in 20502 Compared with our own gloomy times, it could be better than we think

The chains that grind

Auckand’s mayor has barely donned his official garb and he’s already thrown a spanner in the government’s Three Waters works.

Dark mirrors

George Saunders' new collection of short fiction blends the real and the absurd as it reflects the horrors of the Trump era.

Beyond recall

Ian McEwan's 18th, and perhaps last, novel surveys society's progress in recent decades - and shares parallels with his own life.

Healing stage

Why actor Richard E Grant is bringing his one-man show based on the memoir of his wife's death to New Zealand.

Steering through

Fun but pointed debut about being an Asian-American woman in US academia.

Beyond belief

Is religion on the path towards extinction in New Zealand?

Blocked passages

Dairy products have long been accused of increasing nasal and lung congestion. So should you drink milk if you're feeling bunged up?

Uneasy atmosphere

Rethinking urban planting and better air monitoring for pollen and spores could help reduce symptoms for seasonal hay fever sufferers.

What the magpie says

CATHERINE CHIDGEY'S new novel, The Axeman's Carnival, takes a bird's-eye view - literally - of the lives of an unhappily married couple on a sheep farm in Central Otago

Berthing behemoths

For 23 years, master mariner Joanne Farmer was the only female port pilot in New Zealand.

Master of mayhem

The West has appeased Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for far too long, argues UK war reporter John Sweeney in his latest book.

Spreading the joy of words

Poet and children's author Paula Green has produced two new books while coping with a rare blood cancer, and now a bone marrow transplant.

Keeping up appearances

Our obsession with body image is a serious public health issue for both men and women, says a Cambridge philosopher.

Clash of cultures

A bleak tale of religious violence in India possesses an underlying optimism.