Lady Gaga's forthcoming pictorial book will include images of her in the shower.

Model, film star, now writer: Grace Coddington is set to tell all in her memoirs.

New Zealand writer Tim Radford tells Stephen Jewell why his new book about roots defies genre and how reading Moby Dick can affect one’s sense of place.

Had Robert Hughes continued with his original aim of being an artist rather than becoming possibly the best-known art critic in the world it is a safe bet he would not have been a miniaturist.

The Auckland Art Fair could not have found a better venue than the Viaduct Events Centre

When, in 1946, Bobby Troup wrote what became his classic song, Route 66, he could hardly have anticipated how popular it would become.

Auckland Art Fair founder Jennifer Buckley believes art is the domain of all. Here she shares her own unique aesthetic.

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 turns a mirror on Indian society, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Vivienne Plumb's new collection of poetry - beautifully designed by poet and publisher Helen Rickerby - reminds me that poetry books can feel so good in the hand. Plumb's poems have a chance to breathe on the page.

Why, asks Barry Forshaw, are Scandinavian writers winning worldwide acclaim for their crime?

Sarajevo, in Bosnia, was the perfect city for a siege. Nestled in a valley surrounded by hills, the people below became easy targets.

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.

Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.

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.

Kiwi music sensation Ray Columbus recently released his autobiography, The Modfather: life and times of a rock 'n' roll pioneer (Penguin, $42).

Dame Fiona Kidman takes a literary trip through time, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Kiwi icons such as Billy T James and Sir Edmund Hillary could soon grace the facades of Manhattan high-rises....

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.

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.

This haunting, Booker-short-listed novel follows a young South African man identified only as Damon. Yes, just like the author.