The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.

With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.

With Christmas nearly upon us, the Canvas book reviewing team takes the hassle out of gift-shopping with ideas for all ages and tastes.

The Arrival was the big winner at the Chapman Tripp Wellington Theatre Awards which were handed out last night.

John Grisham clearly felt deeply about this book - perhaps because he's recently become concerned about wrongful convictions, and the treatment of that theme here has a very passionate edge.

Auckland stand-up comedian Ben Hurley gives insight into his reading preferences.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma is the very apt winner of the inaugural New Zealand crime-writing award.

Gagarin Way is about current political apathy; nonetheless it expects its audience to have a wee bit of political awareness, particularly vis-a-vis 20th century British history.

The mysterious emergence of 271 previously unknown works by Picasso could trigger a lengthy legal battle.

Stephen Jewell talks to director-turned-writer Guillermo Del Toro about his life post Middle-earth and the newly released second part of his spine-chilling vampire trilogy.