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The man managed to win big after placing a bet worth just a couple of pounds

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

Almost 69% of under-30s turned out to cast their ballot, with many wanting rid of the status quo

I got my own round at 17, as soon as I passed my driving test, and have stayed so long because I really enjoy it

Robert, an American truck driver in his 50s, lived in a trailer park in the Deep South. After divorcing his wife, who had cheated on him, he joined an online dating agency that connected Western men with Chinese women through translator-assisted email exchanges.

Is marriage modern? This is the circuitous premise of Australian writer Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel, The Modern, set in contemporary New York and centred on the life, half-loves and near-loves of Sophia, an Australian research fellow at MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art).

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