Features
The High Cost of Absolutely Everything
The real reason New Zealand is so expensive.
By Ollie Neas
photo: Andrew Macdonald
Down on the Farm
Huge modern mortgages, climate politics and negative public perceptions are, for some farmers, becoming too much to carry.
By Paul Gorman
Burst Bubbles
Will our anxiety about holidaying in a post-Covid world change the way we travel forever?
By Anna Rawhiti-Connell
The Infodemic Hits Home
Popular Chinese-language media outlets in New Zealand are helping spread misinformation about western-developed Covid vaccines.
By Emanuel Stoakes
Shrubby Tororaro Muehlenbeckia astonii. Photo: Sam Hartnett
Photo Essay
An expert propagator wants you to plant a kauri — or ten.
By Sam Hartnett
Four Corners
Wrestlemania Returns
By John Summers
Ginseng and Gumboots
By Tim Chen
After The Canterbury Floods
Interview by Helen Glenny
Culture Etc.
Photo from ‘A Fashion Education’
A Fashion Education
The woman behind a quietly influential second-hand clothing business is part saleswoman, part detective, part fashion encyclopaedia.
By Tess Nichol
About Town: Catlins
Closed borders prompt one “gullible North Islander” to head further south than she’s ever been before.
By Sharon Stephenson
How We Live
In a new book, Francis and Kaiora Tipene of The Casketeers share their knowledge of living in te ao Māori.
By Shilo Kino
Bounty Hunting
Harrison Christian tries to untangle the story of his ancestor, Fletcher Christian, one of history’s most famous mutineers.
By Harrison Christian
Book Reviews
Paul Little on a new Owen Marshall retrospective, a poetic reflection on middle age, the return of the crime fighting team The Nancys, and more.
The National Gallery
Featuring work by a New Zealand amateur artist every month.
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