Hollywood mothers who seem to juggle stellar careers with kids, husbands and travel - all while looking fabulous - pose a threat to women's mental health.

"I placed the suitcase containing the paintings in the stove." The mum of an art heist suspect says she "destroyed any evidence" - quite permanently.

More than 400 artworks by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the home of his stepdaughter, she has claimed.

There's a tantalising connection between Jazz Age performance legend Josephine Baker and the Old Folks Ass.

Sir Humphrey Appleby, the consummate civil servant with a patrician disdain for the delusions of democratic government, is an almost perfect comic creation.

'I liberate photographic fragments from their original snap-and-capture setting and reposition them in the space of art," is Peter Madden's description of how he arrives at his fascinating collages at the Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Having never before met a polluter of the moral innocence of youth, I have no idea whether the author Ted Dawe is an unusually engaging example of one.

Good, well-written stories that go to the heart of a reader and touch the truth of any human experience, including sex, can help a young mind rise above smut.

A teen novel that follows a boy's journey from his small rural East Coast home to an elite Auckland school has picked up the top prize at this year's New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

The country's latest Fulbright recipient has come a long way since living on the street when she was 12.

Inequality means watching people close to you.

New Zealand has become a richer country in the past 30 years.

Your latest play Intimacies is about how technology is warping our lives and relationships - how is it affecting you?