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Entertaining ourselves to death
Our growing ability to access on-demand entertainment is all well and good, writes Greg Dixon, but what we really need is more time.

Dealing with cold callers
You can always tell. No matter what time of day (though around dinner-time is always a bit of a giveaway) you just know, the moment it starts ringing.

Wine: Hearty comforts
'Tis the season for hearty comfort food and wines to match. If you’re looking for cuddly, well-made and red wines that are a bit off beat … you’ve come to the right place.

Review: Cassia, Auckland CBD
Out in the suburbs it is difficult to suppress a yawn when it is announced a new Indian restaurant is to open.

Book review: The Art of Neil Gaiman
This is a very strange book. It's about Neil Gaiman, so it can probably afford to be.

Gerard Woodward: Dumplings of fact
Gerard Woodward’s family gave him plenty of material to write about, but it took years to work out how, he tells Linda Herrick.

Book review: The Temporary Gentleman
Sebastian Barry’s latest novel is a narrative of disintegration and self-destruction, written in the most lyrical of language.

Lion Heart: Amber-Rose Gailer
What does it take to save a baby's life? Suzanne McFadden traces the incredible story of a baby's will to live.

James Griffin: Commonwealth's odd sports
The best thing about the Commonwealth Games is that they are exactly like the Olympics except we win heaps more medals.

Hope at heart of display
Graphic images show the extremes of life worldwide. Paul Lewis reviews the World Press Photo exhibition.

Wine: American beauties
It’s a pity there are so few American wines available here as many of them are drop-dead gorgeous. True, many are extraordinarily expensive but those that find their way here are usually of astonishing quality and value for money.

Review: Touquet, Auckland CBD
The council's new cobblestones will look cool when they're finished, but at the moment O'Connell St is a bit of a mess.

The Dark Horse: Cliff's edge
Cliff Curtis’ turn as a bipolar chess champ may be his greatest role yet. He talks to Russell Baillie about piling on weight, confronting his past, and being a family man.

Brunch: Ravenhill, Birkenhead Point
We’d peered behind the papered-up windows, anxiously wondering what the new owners were changing on this popular corner spot, so the first chance we could we were queuing at the door.

Graham Swift: A coastguard meets a comedian
The many facets of England meet in the pages of Graham Swift’s new book, writes Stephen Jewell.

James Griffin: Accident in creation?
Whether you believe in Creation or evolution or intelligent design or not-so-intelligent design or whatever, the male scrotum surely has to be a mistake in all of them.

Fashion: Colour bomb
Colour blocking is trickling its way into spring/summer collections and, while winter focused on mixing block pastels and brilliant hues with subdued tones, now its about embracing brights with gusto. After all, who said minimalism was restricted to neutrals?

Gaming: The path to success
An online game that began in a New Lynn bedroom now has fans around the world. Alan Perrott meets the gamers who used their mouse — and won.

Brunch: The Botanist, Auckland CBD
The Botanist does more than brunch, or even lunch or dinner.

James Steen: Can toast be drunk?
In his New book, The Kitchen Magpie, James Steen presents a veritable host of household hints. Here are some of our favourite.

Martine Bailey: Taste of murder
Martine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.