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'Great day for poo in Wellington': Faecal fans celebrate capital's shitty success
Today's central city poonami seals it: Wellington is New Zealand's capital of crap, says Emily Writes
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Today's central city poonami seals it: Wellington is New Zealand's capital of crap, says Emily Writes
John Tamihere has launched his first policy slate ahead of the Auckland mayoralty election, making a pitch for the conservative vote. Alex Braae was at Chamberlain Park golf course for the launch.
An inquiry will seek to find out whether the Christchurch attacks have been prevented if the security services were looking in the right direction
Steve Braunias leads a special Spinoff investigation into fresh claims that 1971 was the greatest year in music ever.
Steve Braunias reports live from the children's book awards held tonight at Circa Theatre in Wellington. All the winners! All the drunks!
Every day this week we look at the work of maybe the world's greatest living writer - Don DeLillo. Today: Thom Shackleford appraises the master's latest novel, Zero K.
Every day this week we look at the work of maybe the world's greatest living writer - Don DeLillo. Today: a long, brilliant conversation about the master, between Tom Moody, the head of the US fiction bureau at the Spinoff, and Thom Shackleford, who has great hair.
Every day this week we look at the work of maybe the world's greatest living novelist - Don DeLillo. Tom Moody begins the series with an introduction and overview of the master.
In which Paul Litterick reads our Monday extract, the one by Roger Horrocks about how New Zealanders are anti-intellectual, and says: "Bollocks."
Intellectuals, according to bigots like Rob Muldoon and old writer Gordon McLauchlan, are mere "ivory tower types", "formerly educated fools". Why are we always hating on smart people?
Once you notice this one weird thing, Seven Sharp will never be the same again
An essay by Peter Wells on a new "sacred text" by her holiness Katherine Mansfield - 20 pages of jottings from a summer holiday on the Napier-Taupo road when she was 19.
Roger Shepherd's memoir as the founder of Flying Nun has shot to number one on the Unity bestseller list in both Auckland and Wellington. But what's the truth about the label that "celebrates itself"? Gary Steel assesses Flying Nun's jangly, droning heritage.
The embargo for the shortlist of the New Zealand children's book awards was lifted at 5am - and this story went live at 5.01am. Sarah Forster reveals the shortlisted authors and books, and makes her picks for who will win at the awards ceremony on August 8.
Karl Ove Knausgaard! He's confessed all in his fiction; what's he actually like, in person? Dan Kelly goes to see him speak at a bar in Soho.
Philip Matthews reviews Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971 by Jonas Mekas
Former world kickboxing champion Mike Angove will be calling Joseph Parker vs Carlos Takam from ringside tomorrow night. Here he breaks down the match-up and makes his prediction on the outcome of the richest fight in New Zealand history.
