With the Fox With Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson has tackled a painstaking stop-motion adaptation of a childhood favourite.

I cannot fathom why short stories are not as widely read as they once were when the best of the contemporary work is so entertaining.

She's funny, she's had a boob job and she's just written a book that could see her thrown out of her church.

Film-maker Roger Donaldson has compiled a photographic scrapbook of Kiwi codger Burt Munro - and has his eyes on a biopic of Ed Hillary.

It has been a horrid year on the economic front but the arts have thrived.

From Naxos to Nixon, this music will cheer the soul.

The Auckland theatre scene has been busier than ever over the past year, but does quantity mean quality?

There's been plenty of variety and rich performances in the classical live music scene over the past year.