2024
Sleeping dogs: Tom Phillips and New Zealand’s wilderness myth
From Man Alone to Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Kiwi culture has long romanticised the bush-dwelling loner. Now Tom Philips drags his children into a dangerous reality challenging our national narrative of rugged individualism.
By James Borrowdale
Canute economics
Economist Geoff Bertram on why the turning tides of price increases doesn’t mean government can claim credit for cutting inflation.
By Geoff Bertram
Top Cop
Writer John Sinclair talks to the Chief Police Commissioner Andrew Coster on the eve of his departure for the shores of social reform.
By John Sinclair
The disappeared
Solitary confinement destroys people, but New Zealand continues to inflict it on our most vulnerable and damaged people, including children, as a matter of course. Aaron Smale reports on the practice that won’t go away and the people that are psychologically annihilated and physically disappeared in state institutions.
By Aaron Smale
The family album
Interdisciplinary artist Stella Brennan remixes archival objects into anti-nostalgic meditations on progress and history. Thread Between Darkness & Light is Brennan’s most personal artwork, and one of her most beautiful.
By Theo Macdonald
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