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A collage of seven people in front of an empty parliamentary chamber with a transparent 2026 calendar overlay, showing months and dates in the background. The people appear diverse in age, gender, and style.

NZ politics in 2026: The big issues on which the year will hinge

The year "2026" appears in fiery numbers over a blurred government building, with a background of textured butter and floating soap bubbles.

A bunch of wild political predictions for 2026

The cover of Northbound by Naomi Arnold, with an image of the NZ bush behind it.

‘The trail was haunting me’: Northbound by Naomi Arnold, reviewed

A fashionphobe gets a front row seat at iD Dunedin Fashion Show

Joy Cowley in the new documentary, Joy: Full & Fearless

We should all hope to live like Joy Cowley

The cover of Catherine Chidgey's The Book of Guilt which shows a woman running on a beach with a young boy.

An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed

A photograph of a New Zealand beach access with cover of A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan over top.

A Beautiful Family: a haunting summer holiday novel, reviewed

Our 10 wild political predictions for 2025, revisited

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

A collage features: a man in a suit, news clippings with a chat icon, a woman smiling with glitch effects, a man standing next to a mascot, and partial red text, all on a light blue textured background.

The Spinoff’s biggest stories of 2025

Was 2025 cursed

Sorry, but 2025 wasn’t actually cursed