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When you tell someone you're getting weight loss surgery, they tend not to ask why.

Colin McCahon: Is This The Promised Land?

Painter's decline into alcoholism and dementia is made plain in important new biography.

Bata Bullets and bibs: Why netball was my first love

How the Silver Ferns became idols for a young Kiwi sports star.

Ashleigh Young shares why bad weather doesn't have to mean a bad day

Ashleigh Young shares why bad weather can actually be cathartic and restorative.

Is the dumpling dead? In praise of BBQ skewers

Barbecue skewers are the new dumplings on Dominion Rd.

DJ Fat Tony on his crazy 35-year career and life in recovery

Times: Meet fashion's favourite DJ, and the unlikely cult hero of quarantine.

'To be with him in this way was an almost intolerable ecstasy'

In an extract from Rodham, Hillary and Bill are about to get romantic.

Steve Braunias gets in too deep with a classic novel

I flew to Wellington with Madame Bovary; Flaubert's classic novel was very good company.

This is the way the world looked to be ending - not with a bang, but the falling of leaves

Steve Braunias on the farewell to isolation and return to the "new" normal.

First love: The pleasure and the pain of four writers inspired by Sally Rooney's Normal People

Few things are more powerful than first love. Four writers share their stories.

The thrill and the mystery of finding your family history

What can your ancestors tell you about who you are? Greg Bruce goes searching.

Why social distancing and lockdown hasn't changed life for this rising art world star

As New Zealand went into lockdown, this young artist had something to feel good about.

Ashleigh Young on a sad story of broken trust and disappointment and lost jobs

Ashleigh Young: tiny losses and dishevelments remind me how much we need people.

Tantrums, egos and threesomes: What life is really like in the music industry

Times: Melanie Blake tells all about her career behind the scenes in the music business.

What will the world look like in a year? Great thinkers share hopes and predictions

"Thinkers" on how the world will look in one year from May 2020, post-coronavirus.

Five famous Kiwis on what their mums taught them

Thomasin McKenzie, Kate Sylvester and Reb Fountain reflect on the wisdom of their mothers.

Which novel will win NZ's top book award?

The countdown is on for the announcement of New Zealand's best books.