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Herbs Write the Reggae Soundtrack to New Zealand’s 1980s Protest Movement

Herbs’ debut ‘Whats’ Be Happen?’ is more than just a stirring example of the spread of reggae across Oceania in the 1970s: it's an important political document that teaches us about a time in New Zealand’s history and a symbol of resistance.

Ghostly Intimacy at the Edge of the World: Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano’

A man’s world is seen through a woman’s lens in New Zealand’s cinematic triumph. Max Hayward reviews this intimate story between man and woman, woman and piano, as it unravels in an unknowable, rain-drenched landscape.

From Lyttelton, New Zealand, to the Big Time; the World is Marlon Williams’s Amphitheatre

Pre-world tour, Marlon Williams speaks with Ghita Loebenstein about his Māori heritage, the Gram Parsons CD that lured him to country music, and the familiar smell of the Christchurch air.