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Jennifer Buckley's favourite things
Auckland Art Fair founder Jennifer Buckley believes art is the domain of all. Here she shares her own unique aesthetic.
Jeremy Wells' NZSO doco to screen this Sunday
The unlikely documentary that paired the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with famed satirist Jeremy Wells makes it to the small screen this Sunday.
Book lover: Tim Carlsen
Tim Carlsen is an Auckland actor who is performing in Silo Theatre's I Love You Bro, now playing at the Herald Theatre.
Aravind Adiga: Mischief in Mumbai
Aravind Adiga turns a mirror on Indian society, writes Nicky Pellegrino.
Book Review: Goodbye Sarajevo
Sarajevo, in Bosnia, was the perfect city for a siege. Nestled in a valley surrounded by hills, the people below became easy targets.
Book Review: We Are Soldiers
Award-winning Sunday Times columnist Danny Danziger made the inspired decision not to write a book about British soldiers, but to let the soldiers tell their own stories.
Jeffery Deaver: Wrestling with the morality of spying
Jeffery Deaver tells Stephen Jewell why the new Bond carries an iPhone.
Fiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff Q&A
Boston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff was researching a story about World War II when he came across an article in the Chicago Tribune from June 1945. He was stunned.
England: Fine home for a bear of little brain
Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.
Travel book: <i>Marathon</i>
Not a travel book as such but just the sort of book I like taking with me when I'm travelling somewhere ... in this case to Greece.
Book lover: Ray Columbus
Kiwi music sensation Ray Columbus recently released his autobiography, The Modfather: life and times of a rock 'n' roll pioneer (Penguin, $42).
Giant Kiwi icons may soon adorn NY
Kiwi icons such as Billy T James and Sir Edmund Hillary could soon grace the facades of Manhattan high-rises....
Franco learns from unwise photo post
Movie star James Franco upset his big business links when he posted a shot of his hand down the front of his crotch as part of a Twitter-based art project.
Book Review: Lowboy
Lowboy leads us on a dark yet wondrous journey into the strange subterranean world beneath the streets of New York City - and deep inside the chaos of his own unravelling mind.
Book Review: In A Strange Room
This haunting, Booker-short-listed novel follows a young South African man identified only as Damon. Yes, just like the author.
Book Review: The Best Of Young Spanish Novelists
The 22 Spanish writers in this entertaining collection were all born in or since 1975, the year General Francisco Franco died after 36 years of repressive rule in Spain.
Book Review: Caleb's Crossing
Once again Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks takes a simple, barely known historical fact, fattens out and brings it to life so lyrically you feel transported back in time.
Nalini Singh: Romance meets sci-fi
New Zealand writer Nalini Singh tells Stephen Jewell how she began writing as a teen and never looked back.
Jeffery Deaver's licence to thrill fans
Jeffery Deaver's 007 is young and modern, writes Nicky Pellegrino.