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Claire Mabey on the magical pull of cigarettes

A new poem by Tusiata Avia.

Wellington flocks as one to a new treatise on wealth disparity.

Here's a hell of a metric: this comic's been read 300 million times.

What stories do your dead tell you? How do you see your past? Those questions drive Richard Shaw's new book.

Too many books for children are churned out on a cynical production line.

A new poem from Auckland poet Jiaqiao Liu.

Blockbuster fiction, a nifty cookbook and a big, beautiful new anthology of queer writing.

One of our great literary magazines is no more. Its publisher looks back on what it achieved, and muses on the long-gone golden age of New Zealand publishing.

Joy Watson, author of Grandpa's Slippers, died in October.

Is this the springboard for a bigger resurgence in 2023?

The editors were inundated with submissions; the hardest part was saying no.

A journalist who has covered NZ elections across seven decades puts Labour's win last year in perspective.<br />

A new poem from poet and artist Vanessa Mei Crofskey.

We're all getting Aroha for Christmas – and we blimmin deserve it.