3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (359+ words) A new video exhibition goes political, while sculptures get pranked: just some of the visual arts highlights around the motu. As election year ramps up, artist Luke Willis Thompson has declared that a work of art can also be a…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (275+ words) Naomi Osaka's arrival on centre court has become an anticipatory event, not just for the smashing tennis that will follow but for what she will wear to do said smashing. "People say athletes are in show business," the four-time Grand…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (322+ words) THE ARRIVAL by Robin ROBIN BROOKES Brookes (Harvill, $38) Leo and Viv, two Americans living in London, go to bed one night after watching American Psycho and drinking a bottle of 0% Malbec with dinner. -" - Mark Broatch Leo wakes up to find…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (245+ words) If there's not enough drama and comedy on the field, there are more World Cup-inspired shows on the sidelines. There's plenty of play happening off the pitch, with football and football-adjacent shows filling TV line-ups. This story is from the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (487+ words) Working parents are increasingly juggling childcare with caring for elderly relatives who are living longer in poorer health. And it's women shouldering the burden. There's a lot of us out there, and we tend not to see ourselves in the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (227+ words) A haunting story of children exploited by their mother for literary fame. BY STEPHANIE JOHNSON NYMPH by Sofia Montrone (Text, $40) This story is from the June 13-19, 2026 edition of New Zealand Listener. A thought-provoking novel set on a sentient, planet-like spacecraft…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (263+ words) BY STEPHANIE JOHNSON NYMPH by Sofia Montrone (Text, $40) Nymph is a debut novel by a young writer based in New York, where she teaches in the creative writing programme at Columbia University. Sofia Montrone takes as her subject the lives…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (390+ words) Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell on her night at the Oscars, writing in a Wendy house, and giving Paul Mescal Elizabethan hardware. Novelist Maggie O'Farrell is talking to me from her study in Edinburgh. We are on a Luddite version of…...

14+ hour, 27+ min ago  (477+ words) Surge in harvesting fuelling racist reactions, with some blaming migrants and tourists Along parts of Auckland's coastline, the growing popularity of foraging for shellfish in fragile intertidal zones has ignited an increasingly bitter debate in New Zealand over conservation, migration…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (415+ words) Ian Wright is the most iconic Londoner for everything he's done for Arsenal -As told to Rose Beer North-west London, in Barnet. I live there with my wife and we've been there for about six years. I was born in…...