2+ week, 6+ day ago  (291+ words) DRAMATIC CCTV shows the moment a plain-clothes police officer rugby-tackled a suspect trying to evade arrest. Uniformed officers were giving chase to a man on a bike in the centre of Cambridge last Tuesday (June 23) when the drama unfolded. This…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (444+ words) Principal Trizviiy Marikkar says 99% of Zahira's current team consists of home-grown talent ZAHIRA College Principal Trizviiy Marikkar this week set the record straight on integrity and recruitment policy of rugby players by the school. Marikkar’s move follows what he described…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...