The race is on to save a largely unknown Whanganui garden with a rich history.

Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen has an unparalleled understanding of the forces that have wracked Russia in recent years.

In her latest video work Boney (Phoney?) M, New York-based artist Li-Ming Hu explores the bounds of a concept she says is now simply a fact of life - cultural appropriation. Hu talks to Kim Hill about performance, sincerity and why she's still on her 'OE'.

Peace might be on the horizon for the East African nation of Ethiopia after 19 months of civil war, which has seen thousands killed and millions needing humanitarian aid.

The US Supreme Court has revoked the constitutional right to an abortion that has been in place for half a century.

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Rena Owen has played everyone from Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors to Nee Alavar in Star Wars, but the actress says playing Dame Whina Cooper was one of the most challenging roles of her 30-plus year career.

In her new book The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Saved the World, evolutionary biologist Nichola Rahani writes that being 'cooperative breeders' is how humans have survived.

American writer Mary Gaitskill traverses a lot of ground in her new collection of provocative essays, Oppositions. Compelling and oddly cohesive, the essays see Gaitskill put her sharp writing style and nuanced mind to a wide range of topics including the Book of Revelation, Nabokov and the ubiquitous music of Talking Heads.

By sharing his passion for the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers, maverick headmaster Kevin McArevey has made a profound difference to the pupils at Holy Cross Boys Primary School in North Belfast.  The documentary Young Plato is screening as part of the DocEdge Festival with its first screening at The Capitol Cinema in Auckland on Sunday 19 June.