When Eugene Mursky makes his New Zealand debut on Thursday, he couldn't wish for a more theatrical launch than Prokofiev's glittering Third Concerto.

Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

Giving up smoking is one of the easiest things a person can do.

This collection of essays came together by chance.

Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?"

Damien Wilkins' previous novel, The Fainter, was the work of a writer committed to refreshing the page not for the sake of revolution.