If reading is a pleasure and a refuge in this day and age, imagine what a joy it must have been to snatch a few hours alone with a good book for pioneering New Zealanders.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is putting her Goldie painting 'Forty Winks' up for auction. A record-breaking sale price of $500,000 is anticipated.

For those readers who do not regularly encounter the New Yorker, Guardian, Financial Times, and others it may come as a surprise to find historian Simon Schama finds time away from writing best-selling books.

When Frank Sargeson was 78 years old, not long before he died, I interviewed him for a half-hour television documentary.

TV One's New York correspondent Tim Wilson might have spent much of the last decade reporting some of the world's biggest stories but somehow he's found time to write his first novel, too. Stephen Jewell spoke to him in New York.

German author Johanna Adorjan tells Cathrin Schaer about researching her grandparents’ life and death.

TJ McNamara's picks of the week from the Auckland galleries.

In one of the most exciting pairings since Hudson met Hall, broadcaster Jeremy Wells is going on a European tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.