PremiumPremiumLifestyleLee Child: 'No one I knew had childhood dreams of becoming a writer'Thriller writer Lee Child talks to his biographer, Heather Martin03 Jul 12:00 AM
PremiumPremiumKahuFor the first time in a long time, short story collections are selling wellThe short form is growing.02 Jul 11:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle'Creating art isn't ever easy''I emerged from the theatre an absolute blubbery mess' - Shane Bosher on The Normal Heart02 Jul 10:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleKiran Dass: Best winter readsSeven page-turning reads for winter02 Jul 09:00 PM
PremiumPremiumKahuNo love for a cold climate'It's hard to be an island girl when you live in Wellington.'02 Jul 08:00 PM
PremiumPremiumEntertainmentWhy is this movie about books causing complicated feelings?Greg and Zanna investigate their feelings over a deeply unfunny movie starring a comedian.02 Jul 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleBecky Kuek: 'We all lost our minds, singing every single lyric'TV creator Becky Kuek picks the five bangers that mean the most to her.02 Jul 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumKahu'I had crossed a bomb-site of rubble and craters and collapsing cliffs left by vanished ice''The higher I climbed, the more the southerly intensified. It shoved me in the face.'02 Jul 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleGreg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authorsCharacters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing02 Jul 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleGreg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habitsI like to read - I really do - but do I really?02 Jul 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle'For the first time winter becomes too much''You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'02 Jul 06:00 PM
PremiumPremiumEntertainment'Boy, this got deep' - R.E.M's Michael Stipe on art, politics and sexualityKarl Puschmann chats to the former frontman about his new lockdown inspired book.02 Jul 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleThe Auckland restaurant where time (and prices) stands stillLooking for somewhere new to eat this weekend? We've got you sorted.01 Jul 05:00 AM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleStacey Abrams: 'If you don't raise your hand, people won't give you attention'Abrams: 'Introversion is how I navigate the world but it is not in conflict with ambition'27 Jun 08:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleThe exclusive New York hotel that set women freeGrace Kelly and Joan Didion graced its halls, where no man was allowed above the lobby.25 Jun 11:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleWriter discovers 'this is real for them …'Personal experience helps create authenticity, says award-winning writer25 Jun 11:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleIt'd be a great headline, I know: 'McCartney better than Shakespeare'"I'd love to think of what Beckett would be up to on Instagram."25 Jun 10:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleThe Repair Shop's success due to Kiwi's 'persistence'Being a Kiwi led Carla-Maria Lawson to a top BBC job - and programme25 Jun 09:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleWhen swimming becomes more than a sportIn Campbell Mattinson's novel We Were Not Men, two orphans turn to the water.25 Jun 08:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle'London is the most global city in the world ... unquestionably'Bafta-nominated Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, premieres this weekend.25 Jun 08:00 PM
PremiumPremiumEntertainmentBo Burnham: Inside is a work of geniusIn the midst of a lockdown mental health crisis, Bo Burnham has made something profound.25 Jun 06:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleNo ordinary life: "It was history, you know?"Hokianga's octogenarian novelist Judith Reinken.25 Jun 06:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle'I'm very keen to know how to increase or maintain the health of my brain'Books about increasing efficiency attract writer Natalie Sisson25 Jun 06:00 PM
PremiumPremiumKahu'If my house caught on fire, my signed, first edition copy of Hone Tuwhare's No Ordinary Sun is the one thing I'd take with me'The most difficult thing about writing this play has been making things up!25 Jun 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleFrom Russia, with lust, cocaine and tragedyFrom memory, in the original, Anna and Vronsky never did lines of coke before having sex.25 Jun 04:00 AM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleEven the hummus looks like a supermodel: Restaurants to check out this weekendLooking for somewhere to eat this weekend? Find carrots worth crossing the isthmus for.24 Jun 06:00 AM
PremiumPremiumKahu'I wrote it for Māori and Māori kids because we don't have enough stories that represent us'Shilo Kino's debut novel The Pōrangi Boy is a reflection, in many ways, of her own life.18 Jun 11:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleThe Freewheelin' Bob DylanEdited extract from a new biography of Bob Dylan18 Jun 09:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyleWhat goes around ... life in a loopLife in a loop examined in Sue Orr's second novel18 Jun 08:00 PM
PremiumPremiumKahuGlenda Kane: 'I often time-travel to my childhood'The world needs young female feistiness combined with wisdom, says Glenda Kane18 Jun 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumEntertainmentWill the feel-good movie event of the year make you feel good?Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie turn their attention to In The Heights.18 Jun 07:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle'It's all very good advice, except "Don't mess too much with your hair"Auckland University astrophysicist Heloise Stevance on the music that's shaped her life.18 Jun 06:00 PM
PremiumPremiumLifestyle"Racism is like a cluster bomb for us here in Aotearoa"Polynesian Panther and Pacific academic Dr Melani Anae on healing from the dawn raids.18 Jun 05:00 PM