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.

Bonobos. They share 98.7 per cent of our DNA. They're slimmer and lankier than chimpanzees. They can be taught to use sign language. They're vocal, sociable, and "extremely amorous". They even (ahem) use the missionary position.

In her latest novel, Fay Weldon has channelled her childhood experiences in New Zealand and some mischievous Maori ghosts. She spoke to Stephen Jewell.

Dirty But Clean is back with the third novel in what could be loosely termed his "Poor White Trash" trilogy. His first, the fresh and adventurous Vernon God Little, rocketed him to overnight fame and Booker Prize stardom.

Poetry usually arrives in the form of the traditional "slim volume" - elegant packages of 40-80 pages, like smoked salmon slices. By contrast, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry, all 624 pages of it, landed on my desk with a thump.

Paula Green tells Linda Herrick about a cancer diagnosis which led to a renaissance of writing.

Celebration of hat draws thousands to the Red Centre, writes Pamela Wade.

Kelly Ana Morey cast her creative net wide for her new novel.