After two decades of obsession with America, the boy from Mt Roskill journeyed through its heartland.

Mark Ellingham (Profile) and Peter Florence (Hay Festival) have compiled four collections of short stories under the title Ox-Tales.

'In a perfect world, I would never drink, but it ain't a perfect world' says Sam Hunt.

A doyen of NZ literature has compared plagiarism to drug cheating in sport because of the unfair advantage it gives over contemporaries.

Fans of the Twilight saga will not be let down by the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's second book, writes Ellen Dorset.

CK Stead has criticised Auckland University for minimising the seriousness of the Witi Ihimaera plagiarism controversy.

Vintner's Luck author Elizabeth Knox cried for days after seeing the big-screen adpatation of her acclaimed novel.

Most copies of Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea, which contains plagiarised passages, are set to be taken off bookstore shelves.

A Ferrari disappears. Then the owner begins to suspect that her bank accounts have leaked tens of millions of dollars without explanation.

Author Witi Ihimaera was last night presented with a prestigious arts award - a week after he was caught up in a plagiarism row.

Witi Ihimaera has been named an Arts Foundation laureate and will receive a $50,000 award - days after admitting plagiarism in his new book.

Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship.

There's nothing like a beautiful cookbook to get the tastebuds tingling.

Snoopy gets all the breaks.

Wellington writer Damien Wilkins discusses how a trip to France was a journey in more ways than one.