Society

Please take the rope from my throat so that I may sing

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Talia Marshall explores how James Baldwin's novel,...

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Literature

Please take the rope from my throat so that I may sing

By Talia Marshall

Read Time: 15 mins

Karen Tay explores the role of food in fiction, from...

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Literature

Shiny Red Apple: Food in Fiction

By Karen Tay

The Brooding Elitist Relationship-Wrecker: Tropes of Art and Artists on Narrative Television

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How do stereotypes of art and artists as seen on television...

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Art

The Brooding Elitist Relationship-Wrecker: Tropes of Art and Artists on Narrative Television

By Zita Joyce

Whose Values Will Prevail?: Kawerau, 1986

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Helen McNeil on a flashpoint in industrial action,...

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Society

Whose Values Will Prevail?: Kawerau, 1986

By Helen McNeil

Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Conversation with Jessa Crispin

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Sarah Jane Barnett talks to American writer and critic...

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Literature

Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Conversation with Jessa Crispin

By Sarah Jane Barnett

Read Time: 37 mins

Melissa Laing on first kisses and poetry on Auckland...

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Society

The (quieter) romance of suburban rail

By Melissa Laing

Read Time: 22 mins

In a knowledgeable essay, Elizabeth Heritage explores...

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Literature

Mine by Right: Copyright in Aotearoa

By Elizabeth Heritage

Integration and Denial: Reading James Baldwin after Don Dale

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Orlando Edmonds on what James Baldwin still has to...

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Society

Integration and Denial: Reading James Baldwin after Don Dale

By Orlando Edmonds

An Homage, a Beacon: On Michael Parekowhai's 'The Lighthouse'

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What do you expect public art to do? Lana Lopesi reflects...

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Art

An Homage, a Beacon: On Michael Parekowhai's 'The Lighthouse'

By Lana Lopesi

Read Time: 13 mins

Harrison Christian on a Northland summer

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Society

A Period of Absent-Mindedness

By Harrison Christian

Read Time: 14 mins

Police unofficially restricting women’s access to...

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Society

Bogeymen on the Beach

By Janet McAllister

Read Time: 11 mins

Ella Grace McPherson Newton on demanding pride from...

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Society

Pride and Fear

By Ella Grace McPherson-Newton

Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century

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Literature

Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century

By Pantograph Punch

Read Time: 14 mins

Saziah Bashir on Trump's Muslim ban, and our disastrous...

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Society

A Warning and A Plea

By Saziah Bashir

Read Time: 9 mins

Artists and writers share their illuminating, provocative...

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Society

Waitangi Mon Amour

By Pantograph Punch

Read Time: 28 mins

Mark Mullen describes growing up in the Blenheim of...

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Music

Blenheimer Rhapsody

By Mark Mullen

Body of Evidence: An essay on harassment

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In this anonymous and disturbing essay, the writer...

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Literature

Body of Evidence: An essay on harassment

By Pantograph Punch

Self-Determination and The Struggle: Kyle Powys Whyte on Standing Rock

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David Hall talks to Citizen Potawatomi Nation philosopher...

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Society

Self-Determination and The Struggle: Kyle Powys Whyte on Standing Rock

By David Hall

The Women’s March: The most conservative protest I’ve been on?

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Tze Ming Mok on fighting for the status quo, child...

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Society

The Women’s March: The most conservative protest I’ve been on?

By Tze Ming Mok

Caught in the thirst trap: White gaze on black bodies

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Lana Lopesi outlines the politics of sexual fantasies...

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Society

Caught in the thirst trap: White gaze on black bodies

By Lana Lopesi

Mormons, Curses, and Papālangi Visitations: New Zealand's Evolving Kava Culture

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Harrison Christian joins a kava circle in Hamiton...

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Society

Mormons, Curses, and Papālangi Visitations: New Zealand's Evolving Kava Culture

By Harrison Christian

Read Time: 13 mins

Melissa Harrison on the changing meaning of 'home'....

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Society

Hollow Homes and Speculated Spaces

By Melissa Harrison

Let Them Eat Cake: On Playing At Poverty

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Saziah Bashir on solving poverty by pretending to...

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Society

Let Them Eat Cake: On Playing At Poverty

By Saziah Bashir

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Screen

On forgiveness

By Doug Dillaman

Haunted fibre: exorcising technology through horror

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Screen

Haunted fibre: exorcising technology through horror

By Eleanor Woodhouse

Canary in the Mine: The Artist as a Wary Spectator

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Emma Smith on a masterwork by Titian and what it means...

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Art

Canary in the Mine: The Artist as a Wary Spectator

By Emma Smith

Read Time: 24 mins

Gareth Shute on two deceptively different futures...

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Society

Two Utopias

By Gareth Shute

A Lonely Life: At the Threshold of the World

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Literature

A Lonely Life: At the Threshold of the World

By Max Harris

Read Time: 14 mins

Joe Nunweek on Freerange Press's roundtable on the...

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Society

Review: Don't Dream It's Over

By Joe Nunweek

Forget the glass ceiling, there’s asbestos in the walls

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Ferocious, sharp and unapologetic, Boys Will Be Boys...

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Theatre

Forget the glass ceiling, there’s asbestos in the walls

By Rosabel Tan

Read Time: 11 mins

On the skeeviest defamation trial of 2016 and its...

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Society

This Dust Makes That Mud

By Joe Nunweek

Gloriavale: The Other Side, From the Inside

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Melissa Harrison on the irresponsibly soft treatment...

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Society

Gloriavale: The Other Side, From the Inside

By Melissa Harrison