It was an ailment I thought I was immune from. Not because I had taken a vaccine, but because I’m the introverted type, and I don’t want to risk something unexpected spilling from my mouth. It was ...

On the 20th September, voters in the New Zealand General Election delivered a crushing defeat to the left and a third term to the popular centre-right National party, handing them a powerful outright ...

It had all the makings of a bad end: three unlikely friends brought together by circumstance, a little-known institute investigating unorthodox memory transplantation techniques, and an email that ...

Critics were never quite adored, but they once commanded a certain respect. At the recent Melbourne Writers' Festival, Sydney Review of Books editor James Ley took Joe Nunweek through his history of ...

Life is full to the brim, and I have cultivated an accidental nicotine addiction. Then again, I never anticipated the invention of peach-ice-flavoured vapes, or that working life would be so fucken ...

Amie is Pou Tuku Pūtea / Head of Funding at Irirangi Te Motu / NZ On Air, an independent government funding agency delivering public media to local audiences. Alongside Rachel Trow, she is the ...

A monthly round-up of artworks around Aotearoa that we keep returning to. This month's Unmissables was interrupted by our current and sudden stint back in lockdown. We almost threw in the towel, but ...

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Van Mei (they/them) is an artist, writer and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Get in touch at [email protected]! Sherry Zhang 章雪莉 works across journalism, poetry and theatre. She is our ...

Rose Lu is a Wellington-based writer and software developer. She is currently working on a collection of essays about being a contemporary migrant. Her favourite snack is toasted red-skin peanuts.

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Melissa is an architecture graduate and writer, who is currently living in Berlin and doing a PhD through NTUA [Athens] on the topic of urban commoning and socio-political design issues.