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We’re not quite done juuust yet. Announcing our mic-drop finale, ‘Build Your Own Universe’ a Pantograph Punch x Āhua mini video series focused on the creative imaginations of QTBIPOC artists, releasing in April on Tiktok 2024.
The Pantograph Punch team reflect on 14 years of continuous publishing as a stalwart arts media journal (are we allowed to say this about ourselves?), and our choice to go on hiatus.
Not sure where to spend your pūtea on this giving season? We’ve written up a bucket list of gift ideas that people will be thrilled to receive, that also support your fave local initiatives.
Ōtepoti, we're heading your ways in September! Click this link to read and register for Pantograph Punch x Ōtepoti Writer Lab's upcoming publishing workshop on the 17th and opportunities coming your way!
Our young, wild and free arts journal turns 13 this year, and we've just launched a brand new membership programme to keep our engines at optimum speed. To celebrate our birthday and the launch of Pantograph Pals, we invited near and dear friends to kōrero about our journal, at a live launch event held at Season gallery. Below are some gorgeous snippets of whakaaro, for those who missed the revelry.
We're on the hunt for a fantastic social media savvy to join our dedicated team.
Announcing The Next Page – Editors. An early-career mentorship programme we're partnering with is now accepting applications!
Our top picks of what to see at this year’s Flying Fetu Festival!
The Pantograph Punch chats to Chris Tse, the newest New Zealand Poet Laureate on his next moves.
We’re on the hunt for a wonderful new Kaiwāwahi to join the Pantograph Punch and lead our editorial vision. Could that be you?
Complete our 2022 reader survey and be into win a pukapuka-themed prize pack worth over $500.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Vanessa Mei Crofskey as our new Kaitohu.
The PP crew gives you 7 art moments in 2021: the really high, the fairly low and the unforgettable.
Announcing a new mentorship programme for three emerging writers to work full-time across a range of publications.
Can you courageously lead Pantograph Punch into the future? We're on the lookout for our next Kaitohu.
We wanted to do something, anything. So we compiled this list of resources.
We’ve scoured the soundwaves to curate this must-listen Matariki music playlist – just for you.
We’re teaming up with our friends at Verb Readers & Writers Wellington to bring you Book Coven, a book club straight to your mailbox.
We're looking for two enthusiastic new board members to bring fresh perspectives and expertise to our governance body.
Ana McAllister and Ataria Sharman review the Auckland Writers Festival, what they loved, and what they didn’t.
An organisational ghost reappears and welcomes the Pantograph Punch’s new reconfigured team for a leap into something new.
The Pantograph Punch team brings you our top picks from this year's Auckland Writers Festival programme.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in September 2020.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in August 2020.
The Pantograph Punch and Gus Fisher Gallery are coming together to host a mini writing residency and applications are now open.
It's been a while since we got a fresh new wardrobe, but now we're ready for the reveal.
Bite-size Fringe reviews are back! Auckland Fringe week two.
Bite-size Fringe reviews are back! New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington, from 28 February 2020.
Bite-size Fringe reviews are back! Auckland Fringe week one.
The best art on show this month in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
We look back on the highs, lows and memorable moments of the year in literature.
Our favourite theatre experts from across the country – James Wenley, Emily Duncan, Erin Harrington and our director Kate Prior – reflect on the best moments in the dark in 2019.
Memorable art exhibitions, works and events from the year of visual arts in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The best art on show this month in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
The best art on show this month in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
The best art on show this month in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
The Pantograph Punch team brings you our top picks from this year’s Verb Festival programme.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in September 2019.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in August 2019.
Our top picks from this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in July 2019.
A monthly round-up of artworks in Tāmaki Makaurau that we keep returning to.
We’re thrilled to introduce you to our new staff writers: Tayi Tibble, Vanessa Crofskey, Kate Prior and Lucinda Bennett
A monthly round-up of artworks in Tāmaki Makaurau that we keep returning to.
The Pantograph Punch team has picked out 6 events we’re excited about at Auckland Writers Festival 2019.
The city's not dead, you're just not looking. Kirikiriroa is ablaze with exciting art offerings.
Take our five-minute survey and be in to win a prize pack including $100 to spend at a supermarket or cinema of your choice, plus all the poetry you could want this Easter!
Rebecca Hawkes, essa may ranapiri, Eleanor Rose King Merton, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, Isabelle McNeur and Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly reflect on their 2018 Starling/LitCrawl micro-residencies
A monthly round-up of the works in Tāmaki Makaurau that we're returning to, again and again and again.
Theatre Editor Adam Goodall offers up his recommendations for this year's Auckland Fringe Festival and New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington.
Theatre Editor Adam Goodall (Wellington), Kate Prior (Auckland), Erin Harrington (Christchurch) and Emily Duncan (Dunedin) weigh in on the theatre that excited them, provoked them and made them fall in love in 2018.
Visual Arts Editor Lucinda Bennett and Kaupapa Māori Editor Matariki Williams on their favourite shows of the year.
Announcing our talks programme for Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Interested in writing about art? Join Lana Lopesi and Lucinda Bennett for a practical workshop (and some tips and tricks) for writers based in the Waikato region
Matariki Williams, Lucinda Bennett and Hannah Newport-Watson bring you our top picks for LitCrawl Wellington 2018.
Meet the writers taking part in Summer Fling, our new summer mentorship programme
Announcing Summer Fling, our mini-mentorship programme for 2018-19
A selection of events we think are worth celebrating from the WORD Christchurch Festival 2018 New Zealand, spanning masculinity, mountains, the power of names and the politics of our bodies.
Introducing our four Critics in Residence for 2018-19
A selection of films we think are worth celebrating from the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival spanning fashion, censorship, cultural critique and of course Merata Mita.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Our Critics in Residence Programme for 2018-19, presented in partnership with Basement Theatre
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
A bumper edition round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau during Auckland Art Fair.
So how can we think about crime differently?
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
With such a chocka programme, we picked our top Auckland Writers Festival events worth celebrating, spanning “millennial intelligentsia”, neuroscience and tricky conversations.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
The Pantograph Punch are excited to announce a new direction for the site. From March 2018, we’ll be publishing fewer pieces – and paying everyone more.
PhDs are notoriously gruelling, but throw personal trauma into the mix and the experience can become acutely toxic.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Our monthly round-up of things from The Pantograph Punch worth celebrating.
Incoming Visual Arts Editor Lucinda Bennett and Editor-in-Chief Lana Lopesi attempt to whittle this year of art into something concise and coherent.
We're thrilled to welcome Puawai Cairns and Jess Smith to our board
From the unprecedented unearthing of toxic behaviour to changes in distribution, Doug Dillaman and Jacob Powell look at the year that was film.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Our monthly list of awesome mahi to look forward to. This month features Christmas plays, good art and watercress!
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Tusiata Avia, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Maria McMillan talk to Literature Editor Sarah Jane Barnett about how, in a world full of unexpected, unknown and unconscious bia, we can all just get along.
Our monthly round-up of things from The Pantograph Punch worth celebrating.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Our monthly list of awesome mahi to look forward to, featuring an arts festival, an improve festival and new collection of poetry and a record release with accompanying tour.
Our monthly round-up of things from The Pantograph Punch worth celebrating.
In Part 3 of our NZIFF 2017 wrap up, we take a closer look at the most divisive films and share a wish list for improvements next year.
In Part 2 of our NZIFF 2017 wrap up, we look at the moments on and off screen that stuck with us from this year’s offerings, and the surprise films, from a violin drone virtuoso to a small-town American meditation on architecture.
In Part 1 of our NZIFF 2017 wrap up, an electronic discussion that took place over the course of a couple weeks, we look at the relationship between place and perception, how festivals build community, what we love and hate about NZIFF venues, and what happens when your viewing companion disappears midway through a film.
Gaylene Preston and Chelsie Preston-Crayford on filmmaking and how motherhood (and grandmotherhood) has influenced their work
Our monthly list of awesome mahi to look forward to, featuring an exhibition at Blue Oyster Project Space, Political Cutz, great reads and the Kōanga Festival.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Our monthly round-up of things from The Pantograph Punch worth celebrating.
In partnership with Blue Oyster Art Project Space and the New Zealand Young Writers Festival, join us for a critical arts writing workshop in Ōtepoti.
Your own personal poetry reading at home for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2017.
To celebrate Silo Theatre's 20th birthday, we're presenting four uninhibited and off-the-record tales of youthful disaster with Jason Te Kare, Natalie Medlock, Jackie van Beek and Stephen Lovatt
Lana Lopesi and Kate Prior pick through the rubble of Victor Rodger's powderkeg play.
A monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Your daily coverage of this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival
This month: a reprieve from dark theatres with vital writing about gaming culture at Gitmo, the Wild Rivers Act, and a poem about Ewan McGregor in Speedos.
Sisters Roseanne and Renee Liang talk medicine, Wonder Woman, and trolls.
In which we farewell one wahine toa and welcome another, we chat about the role, their hopes, and the challenges they see themselves facing.
The first in a new monthly round-up of notable, controversial and unmissable exhibitions in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond.
Talking truth, lies and the documentaries with Gaylene Preston, Annie Goldson, Paul Oremland and Tearepa Kahi
Featuring mass forgeries, a Technicolour fever dream and a very special bad movie.
In a three-part series, New Zealand writers tell us how they use different aspects of craft in their writing. In this final installment: Tension.
We're excited to announce the appointment of Courtney Johnston as our new chairperson
The weather is cooling down, the comedians are warming up – it's the first day of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival!
Paekakariki, Sara Hughes, Native Collective and mental health help.
In a three-part series, New Zealand writers tell us how they use different aspects of craft in their writing. Our second peek inside their toolbox: Lyricism.
Alex Taylor, Frances Moore and Alice Canton discuss the nation's latest opera
Our review team for Wellington's New Zealand Fringe Festival - Adam Goodall, Shannon Friday, Matt Loveranes, Mia Gaudin and Fiona McNamara - talk about the festival just been: its highs, its lows and its must-do-betters.
We're excited to be partnering with Playmarket this year to unearth great writing and other gems from their archives, and to showcase our country's best playwrights.
In a three-part series, New Zealand writers tell us how they use different aspects of craft in their writing. Our first peek inside their toolbox: Voice.
We're down to the sixteen finalists in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. And the finalists are...
We've reached the home stretch of the New Zealand Fringe Festival: international Fringe stalwarts like Jon Bennett and Sameena Zehra taking the stage, Victoria University's YOUR FAV programme is opening, and the Fringe Awards are waiting at the end. Our Fringe review team take it all in.
Week one of the Auckland Fringe Festival has two shows that revolve around supermarkets, a woman reciting 621 opinions in an hour and a virtual virtual reality show! Our Auckland Fringe review team - Jess Holly Bates, Melissa Laing, Kate Prior, Janet McAllister and Sam Brooks - is here to cover it all.
Week two of the New Zealand Fringe Festival has spies, sloppy parties and lots and lots of cats (at least 27, by our count). Our Fringe review team gets amongst it.
It's New Zealand Fringe Festival season and Pantograph Punch has assembled a crack team of Wellington reviewers to get amongst it, taking in the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowds at theatres across Wellington. How does this Fringe stack up? We start here.
Artists and writers share their illuminating, provocative thoughts on Waitangi Day
In this anonymous and disturbing essay, the writer catalogues a lifetime of harassment and asks how do we protect women's sexual and reproductive autonomy.
The best reading the internet came up with in 2016 - as chosen by writers featured in the Pantograph Punch in 2016.
Tales of speechlessness with John Campbell, Carol Hirschfeld, Noelle McCarthy and Wallace Chapman
Our Visual Arts Editors Lana Lopesi and Francis McWhannell dish on their favourite moments in art this year.
100 days, co-revolution, Jessicas Hansell and Rabbit
Be part of our 2017 season of events, which features performances, exhibitions, and tastings across Auckland.
Kate, Adam and Sam delve into each mainstage programme, politely disagree, and consider wider questions around risk, the political, and commercial and artistic relativity.
If you squint, we've published one out of every four NZ Book Awards longlisted authors
Pretty maps, a medical atlas and advice from the playwright as a young man
To mark the end of our 2016 season, we're bringing back our sell-out storytelling series with a late-night edition featuring Hera Lindsay Bird, Thomas Sainsbury, Lucy Zee, Alice Snedden and a giant pass the parcel.
Our recommendations for Christchurch's Festival of Transitional Architecture
Critics Francis McWhannell and Lana Lopesi discuss a multifaceted exhibition showcasing some of Aotearoa’s most exciting new talent.
We sift through the jam-packed Artweek programme so you don't have to.
Poet Tusiata Avia and playwright Victor Rodger on writing, using their family stories, and working in places where "shit was too white"
Our film team hand out their inaugural NZIFF Best of the Fest awards, including Best Dog, Best (Worst) Heartbreak and Best Ending To Argue About
Meet our panelists: corporate rockstar Theresa Gattung, healthcare trailblazer Ranjna Patel, ballet-chairing investor Anne Blackburn and professional director (and token man) Rob Campbell.
Join Doug Dillaman and Jacob Powell – joined by Metro film writer David Larsen – as they go head-to-head for the Best Worst Podcast wrap-up of the Festival in 2016.
Is the film sexist? Does director Paul Verhoeven hate women? Eleanor Woodhouse and Doug Dillaman on the provocative French rape-revenge thriller-slash-comedy, Elle.
Win a double pass to Toni Erdmann, the smash critical hit from this year's Cannes.
Win a double pass to Toni Erdmann, the smash critical hit from this year's Cannes.
Win a double pass to Toni Erdmann, the smash critical hit from this year's Cannes.
Win a double pass to Toni Erdmann, the smash critical hit from this year's Cannes.
Our sell-out storytelling series is back with The Other Side of the Story, featuring Kanoa Lloyd, Harry McNaughton, Anna Jeffs and Rob Mokaraka.
Our top twelve picks of 2016's New Zealand International Film Festival.
Win a double pass to the World Press Photo Exhibition in Auckland
The Pantograph Punch are excited to announce their first Satellites event, which brings international choreographers Rina Chae and Kiel Tutin to Albany Mall
White Man Behind a Desk traces his roots and Toby Manhire argues how satire can save the world.
Claudia Jowitt and Amber Wilson discuss femininity as aesthetic and being a ‘serious’ painter
Six Wellington theatre-makers take stock of the New Zealand Fringe Festival: what's great, what could be better, and why we do it in the first place.
Adam Goodall, Sherilee Kahui and Jane Yonge discuss Back to Back Theatre's immersive play as it was performed in a public space on Wellington's waterfront.
With the New Zealand Fringe Festival wrapped for another year, seven Wellington theatre-makers talk about the 21 shows that grabbed them the most.
Our fantastic contributors on the best things they read last year
Victoria Wynne-Jones and Francis McWhannell on their favourite art moments in Auckland this year
Sam Brooks and Rosabel Tan look back on the year in Auckland theatre and pick their favourite productions.
There were the plays we loved, and then there were specific moments. Sam Brooks and Rosabel Tan share their highlights from 2015
When you're creating something - whether it's a painting, a play, or a song - how do you know when you're done? When is a work ready to meet the world, and when is it time to slay the muse?
Our final event of the year, we're inviting our friends to have dinner on the stage of The Civic with us.
Presenting a one-off evening at Auckland Art Gallery featuring Yang Fudong, Lawrence Arabia and Tempo Dance Festival
Rosabel Tan, Joseph Harper, Eddy Dever and Alex Taylor review Silo Theatre's latest production, The Events
A panel discussion on violent crime and the hard questions we aren't asking
Presenting a short season of writerly events
Can you tell the difference between a true film and a Troy McClure Film?
If you enjoy what we do, please help support it!
A one-night-only extravaganza featuring stories from the internet's wild west
Hugh Lilly and Joe Nunweek on the best docos at this year's fest
We chat to Aaron Hawkins about the upcoming Young Writers Festival in Dunedin
Philip McSweeney, Annaleese Jochems and Kirsti Whalen reflect on the weekend's literary festivities.
Rosabel Tan and Joseph Harper on Lara Fischel-Chisholm's solo show, This is My Real Job
Our top picks for the Auckland Writers Festival 2015
Joseph Harper and Sam Brooks give their top picks for the Auckland Fringe 2015.
Rosabel Tan and Joseph Harper on the plays that shaped Auckland in 2014.
Alice Harbourne, Rosabel Tan and Eddy Dever discuss Toa Fraser's sequel to Bare, Pure and Deep.
The Pantograph Punch is delighted to announce two internships for 2015.
Rosabel Tan, Joseph Harper and Eddy Dever discuss Silo Theatre's The Blind Date Project and decide it's worth the gamble.
Ahead of Artweek Auckland this weekend, we try and canvas some of the must-see events and exhibitions of a event as sprawling and diverse as the city itself.
Wild Bees takes us into a 1990s boardroom where union negotiations are taking place in a recently privatised company. It's an interesting historical snapshot, but lacks some basic background information.
Silo's latest show is a dark and uncompromising psychological thriller laying bare the breakdown of a relationship. Rosabel Tan, Joseph Harper and Eddy Dever discuss the play.
For National Poetry Day, a mixtape of New Zealand poets curated by Hera Lindsay Bird and Ashleigh Young.
A recap of the arts policy debate that took place at Q Theatre on Tuesday 12th August
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.
Pulp, forgeries and an extraterrestrial ScarJo: Joe Nunweek, Rosabel Tan and guest writer Hugh Lilly share their picks from this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.
This week on the internet: how we talk about Google, how we talk about art, and how we talk about voting
We inaugurate the Pantograph Punch's new video series by commemorating ten years since the first Mint Chicks EPs - Frances Haszard and Louis Olsen animate the recollections of the fans, while Kieran Clarkin has an oral history of the group's early years.
This week on the internet: Joe writes on the ethics and practicality of ubiquitous trigger warnings, and Matt visits the newest library in the world.
We're collaborating with our favourite NZ magazine next month with a live event that brings the best of both publications (and some of our favourite things) to you on a small-portion platter.
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.
In case you missed them, and in case you need something to read for Anniversary Weekend - here are the team's favourite features that ran on the site last year.
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.
For the last week, the national discourse has been dominated by a story of sexual violence, but it's been a conversation where some have remained silent. This person is one of them.
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?
Political cartoonists: even they think they're dying. Ahead of their panel at the Going West Books and Writers Festival this Sunday, we chat to three of the best editorial cartoonists in the country about what it means to do what they do.
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.
Ahead of National Poetry Day on Friday, we point to a few things worth hearing, seeing and quaffing at in the four centres.
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!
We wade in, slightly late and a little out of breath, to the recent debate over whether we lack quality longform journalism in New Zealand.
Highlights from our second event, THINK OF THE PAY CHEQUE: Matt Nippert on tabloid journalism and some rare footage of our MC, Ed Hillary.
This fortnight: the absurd new Superman movie, vertical cemeteries, films reviewed like video games, naughtiness in award-winning fiction and racism in the US.
Joe Nunweek, Rosabel Tan and guest writer Hugh Lilly share six picks from this year's New Zealand International Film Festival
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?
Ahead of our event, we look at the career histories and transferable skills of our seven storytellers and introduce your host for the evening, Edward Hillary.
Ahead of our live storytelling event next week, the Pantograph Punch's stable of writers take a look at some of their own adventures in bad jobs.
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.
We hear briefly from our panelists ahead of the discussion on Friday.
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
In anticipation of WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE, The Pantograph Punch ask ourselves that very question.
The tactics of fiction, the US elections: schadenfreude and sympathy, patently ridiculous IP, condescending science writing, the Spotify blues and remembering Greg King
The ambiguity of megadeath, list of lists of lists, Hilary Mantel and historical fiction, Illegal Peanut-Factory Sex: urban legend no longer, Jimmy Savile and the cruelty of nostalgia and nanostructural architecture: the interpretative dance
The unmasking of the biggest troll on the web, the ministry of social development's shoddy security, tesla coil, open-source academia and how to spot a feminist
Facebook's faulty memory, learning from animals, dying alone, desperately unhappy, and a straight-faced Forgotten Silver.
The Secret Men's Business Club, The Herald relaunch, Armstrong and the ‘blog-a-tariat’ and Benghazi - 'But We Liberated Them!'
Personal landscapes, pen reviews, poverty lines, political animal crackers, and the definitive illustrated NZ music hall of fame.
Lightspeed trading, Kate Beaton, deconstructing ladyblogs, party rats, korean hip-hop superstars and the building of a goddamn Tesla museum.
