When a friend becomes a stranger.

His name sits above the title of most of his plays. It might even sit above the phrase 'New Zealand theatre'. Sam Brooks speaks to Roger Hall about paving the way for an entire artform.

'We would educate by way of osmosis, without kids even realising that they were being taught anything. They were there to have fun.'

'Climate change does not start with degrees of warming or ticking clock analogies or a fear of the apocalypse. It begins with whakapapa.'

We review the grief in holding a fun-eral for your dead nanny and a spin class history of Asian-NZ theatre.

A new poem by Airini Beautrais.

New novels and poetry, prize-winners, and a former prime minister's memoir are all going strong.

This week, RNZ reported on a tragic death. In the process it perpetuated many harmful messages about young trans people.

Could Dr Love be about to become... Dr Death?