Oil and gas exploration: New Zealand's future
By Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Will the deep-sea oil and gas exploration boom herald an economic bonanza or an environmental disaster?
By Karl du Fresne in Books
A Masterton bookseller who has worked with some of the great names in British pop also has an unusual connection to rock’s Mr Grumpy.
By Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Will the deep-sea oil and gas exploration boom herald an economic bonanza or an environmental disaster?
By Jane Clifton in Politics
Which way will Labour jump?
By John McCrystal in Books
Awards and honours are regularly flung at writer Owen Marshall but his biggest thrill was mainstream acceptance.
Fifty years after JFK's assassination, Wellington political scientist Nigel Roberts shares his personal encounters with the inspirational President.
A social conscience is part and parcel of being a Hager and it runs through Mandy Hager's novels for young adults.
By Margo White
There are some diseases we might be better off not knowing we have.
By Toby Manhire
You simply won't believe the tactics people are using to get you to click the headline.
Robert Harris’s meticulous Dreyfus Affair novel is a thrilling page-turner.
By Guy Somerset
Robert Connolly’s innovative version of a Tim Winton best-seller is part of a new mood of “let’s experiment”.
A look at some words of significance in New Zealand's history.
By David Fisher
In 2008 David Fisher met an ambitious, centrist new health minister who didn't want to be PM.