Press gang
Subscriber contentBy Karl du Fresne in Current Affairs
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
The parliamentary press
Results roller coaster
Subscriber contentBy Catherine Woulfe in Current Affairs
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
A Ministry of Education test has produced exaggerated scores, and principals say this has corrupted the National Standards results.
June 1-7: Including Fresh Meat and Les Choristes
Subscriber contentIssue 3812 23rd May 2013
Temuera Morrison enjoys long pig in Kiwi cannibalism flick, and the French Dangerous Minds. Sort of.
Where it all began
Subscriber contentBy Sally Blundell in Current Affairs
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
Researchers have pinpointed where the first ocean-going waka came ashore, and their studies of the area are exploding myths about our earliest history.
Dan Brown: The Devil’s in the detail
Subscriber contentBy Linley Boniface in Books
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
As his new book, Inferno, starts to fly off shelves, best-selling author Dan Brown talks about history, hell – and critics.
Hear their voices
Subscriber contentIssue 3812 23rd May 2013
Ian Dando reviews 'The Voice' and 'La Voix Des Rêves: Greatest Moments In Concert', by Philippe Jaroussky, Drama Queens by Joyce DiDonato and Sogno Barocco by Anne Sofie van Otter.
Young & restless
Subscriber contentBy David Mahon in Bulletin from Abroad
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
The confident generation face a more certain future in China.
One site to rule them all?
Subscriber contentBy Peter Griffin in Technology
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
A newcomer could shake up the fragmented reviews-listings market.
Wide boys and weak handshakes
Subscriber contentBy Marc Wilson in Psychology
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
How we look and behave can provide valuable clues to what we’re really like.
Two minutes with: Mike Edward
Subscriber contentBy Guy Somerset in Two Minutes With
Issue 3812 23rd May 2013
Now he’s not playing evil Zac Smith in Shortland Street, actor Mike Edward is devoting himself full-time to his and partner Eve Gordon’s “art-house circus” company, the Dust Palace.