Good food can elevate a bad space - and vice versa.

Am I waiting for someone? Have I been stood up? Would you be wondering if I was a man?

Could landscape architects be the climate change warriors who save us from rising seas?

Kevin McCloud ton 20 years of Grand Designs and the TV show's influence.

Crazy Rich Asians star on being protected by a stage name and why she's not afraid to die.

Artist Dick Frizzell on creating a one-man niche for himself and his art.

Does HBO's new series The Righteous Gemstones really break the last TV taboo?

IT: Chapter Two is here but it's not the film Tom Augustine recommends for the weekend.

Canvas columnist Ashleigh Young on the Hand sculpture, in Wellington.

Times: Malcolm Gladwell on Talking to Strangers, his stimulating new book

Go beyond tom yum and try the Thai "taco" at a suburban eatery with flair and flavour.

Greg Bruce tries matched betting and appears to make a killing, but at what cost?

Daddy's home - the photographs revealing days in the lives of stay-at-home dads.

It took 10 years for Kirsten Warner's debut novel to appear, a bigger fight was to come.

Tom Augustine finds The Kitchen fails to fire but Apollo 11 soars to new heights.

Linda Burgess writes of arriving in Lyon with her husband, the All Black Robert Burgess.

Calum Henderson on the new TV show guaranteed to get your motor running.

Sacha Baron Cohen talks to Michele Manelis about his serious new role and what scares him.

Steve Braunias has a hunger for a good deed.

Buttery soup and bacony chicken at Le Garde-Manger is a winter treat.

An extract from Bewildered by Laura Waters.

Ashleigh Young's reflections on friendship

It star Bill Hader on scary movies and the real-life event which terrified him as a child.

What would move you to ditch your life and take five months off to hike the length of NZ?

Calum Henderson wants to know what happened to TV's vision of a bright future?

Rural romance - the farmer and vet turned best-selling New Zealand novelist.