It was a bad week for Donald Trump’s Gaza board of Peace after Christopher Luxon declined an invitation to join. They’ll now have to manage without his statesmanlike contributions to global diplomacy: ...

I'm quite snotty, at least in my mind... it’s an albatross to be seen as the genial uncle of American letters.' ...

News that Charlie’s Bar was closing spread the old-fashioned way, through word of mouth – Karangahape Road is kind of like that. It spread fast and far enough that by its final day of service, the bar ...

Each January, the Department of Internal Affairs releases the top 100 names given to baby boys and girls in New Zealand the year prior. It’s a curious glimpse into how trends come and go, with Sophie ...

This could be because our main exposure to life’s horrors used to be through what Schott calls “hyper-real entertainment violence” in movies and video games, but we have now been forced beyond the ...

Te Pāti Māori says the abolition of prisons isn’t the starting point, but something that will happen once there is no longer a need for them. Until then, the party says its focus is on eliminating the ...

Audience members as well as people working on shows say in some seats you can’t see parts of the stage, while in others you can peer behind the scenes. And then there are the sore backs, necks and ...

Winston Peters says the free trade agreement risks a surge in migration, but his coalition partner says he is simply wrong.

Blue Murder Motel is basically Brokenwood on the beach, writes Tara Ward.

“A force of nature,” Christopher Luxon called her yesterday, and nobody could argue with that. A formidable brain, a work ethic of preternatural proportions. The trouble, and there was trouble, seemed ...

The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction is judged by novelist, short story writer and reviewer Craig Cliff (convenor); novelist, poet and Arts Foundation Te Tumi Toi Laureate Alison Wong; and ...

Swarbrick’s speech had Act Party leader David Seymour, for once, trying to imagine how someone else feels. “You can imagine the disappointment of Chris Hipkins back in his office thinking, ‘Oh man, ...