War from the horse's mouth.

An artistic diversion from bloody reality, writes Steve Scott.

Hollywood, aromatic with the scent of gorgeous and available young women, still remains a sexualised and sexist ecosystem.

The historical preoccupation with Gallipoli becomes easily comprehensible when you remember that 8141 Australians and 2721 New Zealanders died during the brief campaign.

It was when the drag queen in the Santa coat started banging her drumsticks on the scaffolding, singing about sending a barking annoyance to "doggie hell" that Rent came to life.

Another Anzac Day remembered (this is the 95th anniversary) and another clutch of books with military themes have appeared...

A treasure trove of Modernist art, lost in the Nazi invasion, is to be auctioned in the UK.

A palatable picture of the past.

English theatre luminaries Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench are on a heavyweight list of artists and historians calling for the reopening of Auckland's St James Theatre.

Self is a profoundly anti-romantic writer, which is to say that he's a romantic with his back turned and his buttocks bared, so naturally he begs to differ.

Few books make me laugh out loud but there was a point where I laughed so hard while reading this one I had to put it down.

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A "FULL HOUSE" sign outside the town hall last Friday was hardly surprising, with Hilary Hahn playing Sibelius with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

You might think anyone wanting to stand up in front of a room of strangers and try to make them laugh is mad.

And what do you for a job? asked Chris Cox of one of the six whom he had dragged up on stage for the grand finale.

A new biography about talk show host Oprah Winfrey reveals more through what it cannot say.

A collection of paintings that have caused art aficionados to turn a deep shade of purple are to go on show.

A new book covers the former First Lady's marriage and years in the White House, as well as the 1960 campaign and JFK's thoughts on a second term.

Thirty years after the Korean War, an American veteran and an Asian woman are still confronting the conflict that briefly brought them together.

Readers will need both stamina and stomach to get through Lionel Shriver's 480-page So Much for That.

This full and funny first novel, set around a Rome-based English-language newspaper, comes with faux reporters' room coffee stains on the cover.

Gretchen La Roche and Andrew Uren fashioned a graceful weave, in scurrying toccata at times and elsewhere exploring the beat of blurred dissonance.

New author D.J. Connell talks to Stephen Jewell about her hilarious novel which has been optioned for a film.