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Warrior queens of the Middle Ages
Medieval women were far from historical bit players and a captivating new history puts them in their proper place.
Home & away
Three Australian authors explore themes of love, loss, escape and rebuilding.
Words, brains, birds & trains
New non-fiction for kids stirs wonder for language, the human body, nature and the ways we get around.
Past misdeeds, present terrors
The return of an iconic detective leads the latest crime offerings.
French stew
A ruminative tale of female friendship, mythmaking and folk wisdom.
Collateral damage
The decades-long struggle to reverse the UK’s enforced exile of an island nation.
Standing out from the herd
Film-maker COSTA BOTES on how his latest project, about a Waikato cow-whisperer, began and how it fits into an uncompromising career spent capturing the stories of idiosyncratic, persistent and passionate people.
Widow in the frame
Unpredictable murder-mystery grips from the start.
Women on top
A drama with forceful female performances impresses with its scraps.
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.