I’m happy being sad: a defence of sad girl literature
As the climate changes and wars escalate, do we really need any more stories written by white women about white women’s problems?
Leslie Jamison makes an art of divorce
Her book Splinters is a sharply funny portrait of love in decline, a manual for how to live after love.
Essay: Our American fertility dream
‘I didn’t realise how much I had felt the societal pressure to have children until I chucked the ticking biological clock in the bin.’
The Selby’s design eye turns to NZ’s collective aesthetic
The tastemaker has entered a new personal era and it shows in his work.
Beach reads recommended by people who have actually read them
Eight highly recommended books to lose yourself in this raumati.
How it felt to find love in the age of social distance
Athena Zhu reflects on getting married far away from home to someone her birth family had never met.
A love letter to McDonald’s, and public libraries
The council-owned facilities have more in common with the Golden Arches than you might think.
I’m a writer too: The festival for people afraid to call themselves writers
Indie publisher Jennifer Cheuk on celebrating contemporary writing in Aotearoa and resisting traditional notions of who authors can be.
Why Kelechi Okafor won’t stop preaching pleasure
"As black femme identifying people, pleasure is our birthright," says the writer, actor and 'tour de force'.
Imogen Wilson is extremely online because she has to be
The photographer and stylist talks Dreams, turning 30, and her new approach to Instagram.
100 years on, Katherine Mansfield is still a literary punk icon
The author's radical life is as inspiring today as it was more than a century ago.
A decade on: Nine people on why they’ve held onto Alexa Chung’s It
A fashion artefact released 10 years ago from the enduring style icon has stood the test of time.
