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Have you seen the 2024 Ockhams Books Awards longlist? It’s a great big juicy list full of Aotearoa New Zealand writing. Here’s what the experts have to say about longlisted titles in the fiction and…

Got a long drive coming up this weekend? Emma Rawson of Kete Books reviews five local audiobooks to keep you entertained while your eyes are on the road.

Simon Morris looks back on 2023, and notices two big changes. A lot of long-running series and franchises are coming to a close, and the biggest movies of the year are individual and rule-breaking. Audio

Anne Kennedy's new compilation of New Zealand poetry fills a much-needed gap for anyone who's ever needed a poem for a wedding, funeral, or other family occasion, writes Kete Books reviewer Erica…

Killers of the Flower Moon is an unusual project for Martin Scorsese a true crime western set in Oklahoma. Stars Scorsese favourites Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, with a career-making role… Video, Audio

Foreign correspondent Tania Branigan explores how the Cultural Revolution continues to shape China in her new book, Red Memory

Marlowe sees the Irish team of director Neil Jordan and star Liam Neeson attempt to revive the film noir world of private eye Philip Marlowe. Also starring Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange. Video, Audio

Marvel Comics' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a mouthful to say. But is it a challenge to watch too? Stars Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer taking an eye watering trip into the… Video, Audio

Debut crime writer Jacqueline Bublitz burst onto New Zealand's crime writing scene last year with Before You Knew My Name, it has now sold over 100,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand alone - an… Audio

An effort to shield the under-fire All Blacks coach from a media mauling last weekend fired up commentators already cranky about the high-handedness of rugby bosses. But given the intensity of some… Audio

The House sits down with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, David Wilson, whose team runs the machinery of Parliament. Audio

Book review Kingdom of Characters. Cultural historian Jing Tsu's tale of the evolution of the Chinese script is a surprisingly wild ride.

Red Roulette is a gripping personal account of power and greed among China's "red aristocracy".

Dan Slevin describes Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland as “a kind of miracle”. Video

Melanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, published by Bloomsbury. Born to a black mother and a white father in a still-segregated Mississippi, Natasha’s… Audio

LA-based journalist and writer Anna Rankin shares her epic list of favourite songs, books, podcasts, movies and TV shows with us. Audio

The golden age of LA rock is glowingly brought to life in a two-part documentary, reviewed by Dan Slevin. Video

Harry Broad reviews The Quick and the Dead: True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist by Cynric Temple-Camp. Published by Harper Collins. Audio

A new book on the Battle of Okinawa looks at whether the losses led the White House to contemplate dropping the atomic bomb.

Bloodshot sees Vin Diesel as soldier repeatedly brought back from the dead by shadowy forces working for the military. Based on a best-selling comic-book. Video, Audio

The Booker, The Ockham, Atwood, Knox, The closure of the New Zealand Review of Books, covering up white suprematist posters in Newmarket with Hone Tuwahre's poem 'Rain', and Lloyd Jones' proclaiming… Audio

In the middle of an intense election campaign, Australia’s public broadcaster has been looking for new leaders itself after a scandal that saw off its top executives last year. A veteran media watcher… Audio

China Dream a short, sharp satire on modern China and its determination to become a power in the world while the ghosts of its past remain restless.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is another win for Netflix - and the Coen Brothers - and is worth a month's subscription on its own, according to Dan Slevin. Video

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous, which is published by Penguin Random House. "The Kingfisher Secret is a thinly veiled depiction of Donald and Ivana Trump's marriage… Audio

 Who killed Pamela Werner? A new book on a murder mystery of old Peking, takes a new direction and casts doubt on a previous reconstruction of the 1937 killing.

In a show set to surprise his fans, comedy legend Bill Murray produced some genuinely funny moments at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington last night. Elliott Childs went along.  Video, Audio

“Women hold up half the sky” Mao Zedong is famously misquoted as saying. In her new book Women and China’s Revolutions, historian Gail​ Hershatter looks at just how heavy 'half the sky' was for the…