Novelist, children's writer, and Arts Foundation Laureate Kate de Goldi is back with her favourite winter reads.

There's a big weekend in store for Christchurch where the curtain is being raised on the new Court Theatre. The new $56 million playhouse is the theatre's first permanent home since the 2011 earthquake destroyed its Arts Centre venue.

Yael Van der Wouden's first novel The Safekeep is a twisted tale of desire, obsession and loss set in the post-war Netherlands. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and now the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Tory Whanau has announced she will not stand again for the Wellington mayoralty. Her announcement came shortly after former Labour Party Leader Andrew Little confirmed he would be contesting.

Stag Dance, the latest novel from trans writer Torrey Peters, is made up of three short stories and the provocative titular tale of male loggers exploring their sexualities together.

Shaun Hendy is a well-respected New Zealand physicist and the chief scientist at climate innovation company Toha.  He talks about his new book looking at NZ's Covid response.

Have you ever missed something obvious right in front of you? Chances are you've experienced a psychological phenomenon called inattentional blindness.

What's better than 007? Stella Rimington, of course. She's the former director general of British counter-intelligence and security agency MI5.

The Race Unity Speech Awards are on this weekend in Auckland. They're a platform for senior high school students from around the motu to express their ideas on how to improve race relations in Aotearoa.

A hapū at the epicentre of the caulerpa outbreak in the Bay of Islands are calling for more concerted effort to deal with the invasive seaweed.