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Author Tara Moss says she's learning from the disabled community

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'In te ao Māori, sex wasn't something we shied away from.'

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Poet Robert Sullivan turns to myth and history in a soaring new collection, and more.

A new doco finds Marilyn was not 'deliberately killed'. But one ex-investigator disagrees.

A poet documents her life in a memoir that doesn't shy away from the details, and more.

Mike White introduces a collection of early New Zealand canine photos

Times: In 1979, Norman Scott was pilloried and dismissed. Now he's telling his own story.