Everything in: Internet Histories
Our fantastic contributors on the best things they read last year
Janet McAllister on Grand Budapest Hotel and how it tricks liberals into forgetting themselves
Rosabel Tan reports back from Armageddon's Ice-Cream Eating Competition
While Dirty Politics continues to reverberate, life for many of those implicated in both media and politics has largely continued as usual.
It was about halfway through Aussie horror The Babadook that I realised the stomach-churning anxiety I felt had less to do with the film’s monster than the social class of the protagonists: they were poor.
In the first of our new-look Internet Histories, Matt takes a look back at the strangest election campaign in living memory, and how it's been reported online and in the media.
This week on the internet: the pleasures of the NZIFF, metadata from a metagame, trawling the New Yorker's archives and the stories white Australia allows itself to be told.
This week on the internet: how we talk about Google, how we talk about art, and how we talk about voting
This week on the internet: the interstellar archaeologists, terrifying existential threats that will kill you and everyone you've ever loved, and final conversations from the black boxes of history
This fortnight: How the press ran with a gay dog-whistle story incited by a man with a history of gay dog-whistling, and NZ Music Month's dissonance.
Inside Google X, the quiet devastation of 'living apart' and America's food problem
This edition: David Fisher's great retirement letter from Twitter, and why the rest of you should rein it in.
The state of writing on music writing, working as a cultured robot or not at all and YouTube unpleasantness
Inside online newsrooms, tired tropes in True Detective, and a bunch of good things to read.
This fortnight: youarelistening.to and the blurring definition of live music; Lean In's surface-deep revolution; lifestyles of the sociopathically rich and famous, and a warm welcome to new contributor Chris McIntyre.
Teaching empathy to medical students, what the internet is doing to news, and what we're learning (and not) from this year's Olympics.
The cult of gentrification, questioning same-sex marriage, chasing R Kelly, Shia LaBoeuf's pathological plagiarism, and uploading everything.
This fortnight: speculations on whether we're about to see the end of New Zealand's foremost literary journal, the snark vs smarm debate and New Zealand's weirdest pyramid scheme yet.
This week: selfies, seeking asylum and interviewing Manson, then and now.
The shoestring grand designs of Roman Mars, New Zealand, New Alcatraz and urban spelunking.
Russell Brand, art and the artist and credulity in the ocean, in the bedroom, on the internet
Female conductors, the US government shutdown, writing for fun and profit and Alice Munro.
This Fortnight: the Leader we deserve, DC Comics gon wild, Laurel Halo and what is money, anyway?
This fortnight: The soul-sapping no-win spectacle of Syria, Buzzfeed as a diplomatic mouthpiece, Miley and Gaga at the VMAs, how Breaking Bad brings out the worst in certain fans, and racial dot maps of the United States.
This fortnight: The Postal Service isn't dead, just resting, the political economy of Facebook, reviewing all of the music videos, Adam Curtis on the surveillance state, video games, but not as you know them, John on John and New Zealand's printed music journalism.
This fortnight: THAT Fox interview, poetry and the provocative obituary and much-deserved congratulations to Eleanor Catton.
This fortnight: the Zimmerman verdict, tweeted indulgences, herald lead stories, Jay-Z's latest, calling a transphobic spade a spade, drinking in Antarctica, mining one's own gmail metadata and summoning Cthulhu - with chemistry!
This fortnight: the absurd new Superman movie, vertical cemeteries, films reviewed like video games, naughtiness in award-winning fiction and racism in the US.
This fortnight: Yelp, the sound of secret map-makers, rejecting theatre culture, screening premier league football, Alan Moore on Moore’s law, depressing teenage Reddit atheism and the last telegram in the world.
This fortnight: re-mystifying the creative endeavour, the complex complicity of American tech firms, and fluoride - good for teeth, or brain control?
This fortnight: celebrating the commencement speech and those criticisms of Kanye
This fortnight: Playing the taxonomy game, communicating depression, African urban geographies, the Aaron Gilmore Conspiracy, defining the video game, Charles Ramsay and the memeification of tragedy and poverty, and a warm welcome to James Dann
This fortnight - dissecting the Super Mario flop, the commercialisation of Amanda Palmer, applause as a social function, talking about ANZAC day, and the Boston bombings.
This fortnight - the possibilities of Snapchat and film narrative, Rick Ross, Reebok and what happens when people deserve each other, Thatcher, and the C-Mix collated.
April Fool's special: Changes at the Pantograph Punch, WhaleOil, and the Science of Selling out. Featuring new guest post by Michael Laws!
This Fortnight: Dirty Girls, bad editors, lamenting Google Reader's retirement, the future of classical music and writing, privilege and poverty.
Jean Shepherd and the Hurling Invective, spaces made strange, New Zealand's Sexiest Girl and New Games Journalism
This fortnight: The art of the profile, the future of football, why you never leave high school, and a very warm welcome to Sally Conor.
This fortnight - when secrecy begets good journalistic hustle, Sartre's 'The (Facebook) Wall, an assignment from Kurt Vonnegut, the Little Printer, and the most extraordinary scatological Christmas rite.
Ice truck killers, social media insurgency, the best thing on love and grief we've read in a while, the Illuminati, illuminated and a catalogue of New Zealand cartoonists and cartoons
Rosabel Tan talks to Michelle Ang and Jo Holsted about their new play Chop/Stick, the thorny issue of ethnicity and the lunches they ate as children.
