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No ordinary life: "It was history, you know?"

Hokianga's octogenarian novelist Judith Reinken.

Will Smith pens memoir - Will

Will Smith will release his memoir in November.

'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.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Edited extract from a new biography of Bob Dylan

What goes around ... life in a loop

Life in a loop examined in Sue Orr's second novel

Glenda Kane: 'I often time-travel to my childhood'

The world needs young female feistiness combined with wisdom, says Glenda Kane

Details of Margaret Mahy's house sale expected this week

The cottage was on the market with a deadline sale that ended on Friday.

Book extract: Master Aotearoa navigator Jack Thatcher looks to the stars

Inspiring a new generation of navigators.

Milk Fed: A sensuous food awakening

In Melissa Broder's new novel, a calorie-counter falls in love with eating - and more.

When decluttering goes further than mere objects

What hoarding, sexual abuse and prison have in common: systems of power

Memories, ancestries and stories: The spectres that haunt us

Siobhan Harvey's new poetry collection looks to ghosts, past and present.

Anatomy of a poem

A poet on how she brings a poem to life

Brat Pack star remembers the 80s: 'I was drinking to drunkenness every evening'

"We all talked and cried and hugged — and drank the bar dry every night."

Guilt gadgets: Are books truly better than the rest?

Diana Wichtel compares the merits of paperbacks, television and our multi-screens.

'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' author dies at 91

Eric Carle's family says he died Sunday at his summer studio in Massachusetts.

Melinda Szymanik: 'I read to escape and then to find my way back'

Reading crime fiction is research for Melinda Szymanik