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The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read more comics here.

Ray Ploshansky screams into the noisy void on Girls

The Weekend: The sound of silence

Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was.

By Madeleine Chapman | 26th April, 2025

Roughly the route followed by Moehanga on the Ferret (Image: The Spinoff)

The Māori who discovered Europe

April 27 is Moehanga Day, the anniversary of the day in 1806 when Ngāpuhi warrior Moehanga became the first Māori to visit England.

By Joel MacManus | 26th April, 2025

Wellington editor

Daniel Kalderimis’s book Zest stars Middlemarch by George Eliot.

George Eliot and Daniel Kalderimis and me: on the healing power of Middlemarch

Sometimes a book finds you at just the right time.

By Heidi Thomson | 26th April, 2025

Image by Gabi Lardies

‘Absolutely sending it’: When Marlon Williams partied on the 6pm news

'It's not something that anyone should have to see the day after New Years in a hotel restaurant.'

By My Life in TV | 26th April, 2025

Three old friends rejoin the bestseller chart this week.

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 25

Fine old friends rejoin the bestseller chart this week.

By The Spinoff Review of Books | 25th April, 2025

The best things from Australia and Aotearoa to watch this weekend

The best things from Australia and Aotearoa to watch this weekend

Australia and New Zealand join forces once more to bring you the best films and TV shows to watch this weekend.

By Group Think | 25th April, 2025

A bunch of people

Images by Tina Tiller

Lest we forget? The shame of our two-tier veteran system

Our laws are leaving many veterans who served after 1974 out in the cold. I know, because I'm one of them.

By James Graham | 25th April, 2025

Illustration: Hope McConnell

David Hill: Seize the day

For all its virtues, Anzac Day – unlike its forgotten cousin Armistice Day – is a commemoration of war, not peace.

By David Hill | 25th April, 2025

Contributing writer

A Korean man tears his hair as his money is confiscated, Senzaki Repatriation Camp

New Zealand’s role in the mass deportation of Koreans from post-WWII Japan

The violent deportation of migrants is not new, and New Zealand forces had a hand in such a regime after World War II.

By Scott Hamilton | 25th April, 2025

The Best Of

Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with The Artist’s Way?

Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with The Artist’s Way?

Three decades after it was first published, the creative self-help book is changing the lives of everyone from famous rappers to retirees.

By Alex Casey | 19th April, 2025

Just some of the Austen film adaptations made between 1990 and 2024.

Film adaptations of Jane Austen novels ranked from worst to best

Which of the 12 film adaptations will win the hand of the viewer?

By Claire Mabey | 18th April, 2025

Photo: Dave Richards

The tiniest rebuild in Ōtautahi is finally complete

A new exhibition renders big memories at an impressively small scale.

By Alex Casey | 16th April, 2025

Review: The Polkinghorne documentary and what the trial was missing

Review: The Polkinghorne documentary and what the trial was missing

Does Three’s new true crime series about the trial that gripped the nation bring us any closer to knowing what happened to Pauline Hanna?

By Calum Henderson | 16th April, 2025

Production editor

Scenes from the battleground.

Stamp it out: Waging a weedy war with the Society Totally Against Moth Plants

Seven skips full of pods, thousands of sticky secateurs, years of Stamping and yet the moth plant is still rampant. What keeps people going?

By Gabi Lardies | 16th April, 2025