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Published in the white heat of the #MeToo moment, Kristen Roupenian’s viral ‘New Yorker’ short story about a bad date and dodgy sexual dynamics captured the zeitgeist, writes Jessie Thompson. This week, a film adaptation arrives in cinemas – what will audiences make of this tale of terrible sex, six…

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

One of Britain’s most pre-eminent historians on how the capital’s gravitational pull for talent and investment has been regarded as a weakness for the Union

Joseph Roberts, 42, has been accused of killing his girlfriend Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner

Our teens are more medicated than ever — but we're not being honest with them about the sexual side effects

This dazzling fragmentary history of a small patch of woodland in New England travels to the limits of what the novel can do

This novel, about an Australian woman’s existential spirals while working in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is often frustratingly opaque

Whispers of a romance between the 19-year-olds first emerged last November when they were first pictured together on a beach in Queensland

Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass