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Books: Punk rides again
Comic book artist Ant Sang talks to David Larsen about his ‘transformational journey’
Sarah Vine: 'Being a potty-mouthed show-off doesn't make you a feminist heroine'
The problem with this kind of popularity, though, is that it is based on an ever-decreasing cycle of attention-seeking, writes Sarah Vine.
2014's best bad sex scenes
The Bad Sex in Literature Award draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction and to discourage them.
David Hill: Book reviews a transfusion for life-blood of printed word
I've had an email from Ian Braddon-Parsons, disapproving of my November 1 Herald book review of Alexander McCall Smith's Emma.
Books: Small steps towards fascism
The conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.
Dunham sorry for 'predator' joke
Lena Dunham has apologised for joking about being a "sexual predator" in her memoir.
Grace Dent: There's a huge taboo over children's sexuality
The ‘incident’ with the Girls’ creator’s younger sister highlights our confusion over children’s sexuality, writes Grace Dent.
Gallery: Portraits From A Doctor's Surgery
For nearly two years Northland doctor Chris Reid photographed his patients. Greg Dixon talks to him on the eve of an Auckland exhibition of the result.
Amy Poehler spills the beans in new memoir
Comedy queen Amy Poehler’s new memoir spills the beans on her divorce and her dalliance with cocaine. Now, the much-feted comedian is on a new mission — to get rid of the cult of cool and promote humour that’s for everyone, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
Books: Pulling the plug
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.
Portraits from a GP's surgery
Kerikeri GP Chris Reid photographed - with their permission - more than 400 of his patients at the end of their 15-minute consultation. The photos have just been published in a book called 'Patient: Portraits From A Doctor's Surgery' and will feature in an exhibition in Auckland in November. Check out some of the photos in our gallery.
Book extract: A walk on the wild side
A new book exploring New Zealand’s long history of bush walking is published this week. In this Exclusive extract, writers Shaun Barnett and Chris MacLean discuss the evolution of that mysterious New Zealand term for hiking: ‘tramping’.
Books: Elementary, my dear
Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.
Why there's so much love for S.P.Q.R (+recipe)
S.P.Q.R, hallmark of Auckland dining and Ponsonby road staple for over twenty years, publishes the cookbook S.P.Q.R with the restaurant's recipes, photographs and, republished here, a tribute written by Simon Farrell-Green.
Travel book review: <I>View From The Road</I>
This journey along State Highway 1 show that the nation's backbone is a place of life as well as an inanimate stretch of bitumen, writes Alex Robertson.