LifestyleGary Shteyngart: Crying with laughterAmerican novelist Gary Shteyngart tells Alexander Bisley why he likes to combine hilarity, sadness and introspection.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: & SonHyperbole often surrounds big novels, especially big novels from New York about New York and by New Yorkers, but in Gilbert's case it is all justified.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: IdiopathyMany contemporary male novelists, particularly comic ones, are incapable of depicting an unsympathetic female character.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleTwo scribes go to warCould Britain have avoided World War I? Historians Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson have presented rival views on the BBC.22 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleLegends of literature in line-upLinda Herrick surveys the wealth of names coming to Auckland’s Writers Festival in May.21 Mar 06:00 PM
LifestyleSwords and jandalsAn Arabic scene of dunes and camels was the backdrop for a diverse literary event, writes Linda Herrick.21 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleThere's something about JaneNearly 200 years after her death, Jane Austen has become one of the most widely read authors in history. Kerrie Waterworth finds out why she continues to appeal, generation after generation.14 Mar 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The LieIt is not easy to decide which lie Helen Dunmore was talking about when she titled her new book.14 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleThe dark beneath the lightBritish-based writer Tom Rob Smith tells Stephen Jewell how real life drama inspired his new novel in a way that disturbed him far more than he expected.14 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Last WordConsider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author.07 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBen Atkins: One night out sleuthingFledgling Auckland writer Ben Atkins talks to Craig Sisterson about the crime novel he has been working on since he was 15.07 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Terms & ConditionsExtensive footnotes make this hard to follow, as Nicky Pellegrino discovers.01 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: A Beautiful TruthWalt and Judy, of 1970s small-town Vermont, can't conceive a child. For all their mutual tenderness, life has become just "a collection of gestures and habits". So they adopt.28 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleToying with times pastMiranda Carter read history while at Oxford and came to writing after a career in journalism.22 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Empty MansionsThe wealth gap is provoking much contemporary anxiety. But the financial imbalance between, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and the Big-Mac slinger is a shadow of that which existed between the first American capitalist barons.21 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleSchool of hard knocksHope and hopelessness make a funny yet thoughtful combination, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.07 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleArmistead Maupin: Willing to be honestArmistead Maupin’s Tales of the City have delighted readers for four decades and brought gay life into the mainstream. Now the ninth book brings the series to an end. Hermione Hoby reports.24 Jan 05:00 PM
TravelTravel books: Around the world from cover to coverWhile the summer holiday season is still going strong, there's nothing better than whiling away the hours with a good travel book. Linda Herrick reviews a selection of the latest.19 Jan 11:00 PM
