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Experience Betsy Baloon live in the Aotea Centre, part of We The Young. Visit aucklandlive.co.nz to find out about the best shows and events in Auckland.

Wellington’s arts organisations are being asked to deliver more with less, but there is a limit to how far resilience can stretch, writes Tāwhiri executive director Angela Green.

'Just before I die, I’ll open the Universe Splitter – a quantum-induced universe bifurcation app.'

A dispatch from the most Wellington of literary festivals.

'My mother believed that every part of the city was dangerous after dark, but most of all she said this about Barbadoes Street.'

Brannavan Gnanalingam on his new novel U.X.O. and the civil war that has had so much impact on his and his family's life.

1987 Welcome to the Happy World Hotel! Gina Tully – amateur acrobat, woman of conscience and manager of a bottom-of-the-cliff residential hotel – has to balance her ideas about how the world should be...

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A year’s worth of good – neigh, great – horsey reads....

What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?

Cass and the Beast Claire Mabey and Jill CalderGecko Press, 2026 Gecko Press page Like poems, children’s picture books can be and do so many things. Claire Mabey’s debut picture book, Cass and the …

The Queenstown Writers Festival brings writers and readers together to celebrate books, literature and words in many forms.

A report on the crowds, chaos and bathroom selfies of a busy and brilliant festival....

Moata reports back from a WORD Christchurch 2026 session with Noelle McCarthy, author of Dracula-infused memoir, Stakes.

What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?...

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

The key custodian of our nation’s history, the National Library and Archives NZ is again being savaged by Government spending cuts, with a proposal to shed 12% of its workforce.

What can we do about Palestine? I stand in front of you nowa metaphorical stick in my handI bang it three times on the wooden floorThree is the sound of an urgent alarm Genocide speaks in a passive…

Three brilliant novelists discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures.

Having a memoir out is like people have gotten hold of your diary and the reason they have it is because you gave it to them....

'I cried as I worked on it, a lot. Sometimes I felt as if Kelly was writing about her own death.'...

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...

Eleven beautiful books to finish up New Zealand children's book week....

Hydraulic powered cutting machines are ravaging books to train AI....

Anyone who has frequently landed in New Zealand’s capital has a hair-raising story to tell, and this year’s ‘super’ El Niño could only intensify the winds

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We celebrate New Zealand Children's Book Week by remembering the books we loved most when we were kids....

10am: Rewatch the video of Judith Collins saying ‘my husband is Samoan, so talofa’. Minister for Pacific peoples job status: Complete....

'It’s the best book I could have written – but it breaks my heart that I wrote it.'...

My new novel kluge is released in Aotearoa this week. Read about kluge Thanks to the amazing work of Te Herenga Waka University Press and Todd Atticus it has a beautiful cover which comes in four c…

Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature.

It is estimated that less than half of New Zealand students have access to school library services....

‘I've written some adult things and got quite depressed and grumpy writing them, and that's never happened writing Kiri and Lou.’...

A sweeping and original picture book about a girl who chooses not to be afraid

We asked arts industry representatives what funding cuts and political indifference is doing to the arts. The answer? 'This is really fucked.'...

I am sorry to read in THE POST this morning that Ian …

'It's the literary equivalent of sitting by a crackling fire while an icy southerly whistles outside.'...