LifestyleBook review: IdiopathyMany contemporary male novelists, particularly comic ones, are incapable of depicting an unsympathetic female character.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleStars' stylist shares secretsIf you happen to spot celebrity stylist and designer Rachel Zoe out and about, do not worry - she's not judging you.27 Mar 10:00 PM
LifestyleWorld's most-used word celebrates 175 years, OK?Whatever you're doing this Monday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?24 Mar 01:30 AM
EntertainmentABBA: Thank you for the musicA new book charts Abba’s progress from camp 70s novelty act to enduring musical phenomenon. Anna Tyzack meets one of the famous four, Bjorn Ulvaeus.22 Mar 06:30 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
LifestyleDivergent's young adult author actually under 30<i>Divergent</i>, the latest young adult novel poised to become a blockbuster movie, meets all the criteria for the genre.20 Mar 10:30 PM
Lifestyle'Grammar police' ruin EnglishImagine a world in which the advances of the science since the publication of 'On the Origin of Species' - or even since Charles Darwin was born - were ignored.20 Mar 02:49 AM
EntertainmentBooker's first Kiwi comes to townFor sale: hexagonal house in quiet position near top white-baiting lagoon in the heart of the South Island's West Coast.18 Mar 03:15 PM
EntertainmentKiwi author hits big timeA little-known Kiwi author is pinching herself after landing a seven-figure advance and a lucrative film deal for her new book.15 Mar 04:30 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
New ZealandLuminaries setting gets Catton visitAward-winning author Eleanor Catton spent yesterday in Hokitika, the setting of her critically acclaimed novel The Luminaries.13 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleCelebrities who have written kid's booksKeith Richards is releasing a children's book in September, but he is not the first celebrity to venture into the world of children's publishing.12 Mar 06:00 AM
New Zealand12 Questions: Peter WilliamsPeter Williams, QC, turns 80 this year and is finishing a new book of stories from his long legal career.10 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleKarl Ove Knausgaard: A writer's lifeIt’s raw, relentless and, at an epic 3500 pages, a best-selling literary phenomenon. But the brutal honesty of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has shocked many — and alienated half of his family, writes Hermione Hoby.08 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
LifestyleLazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyleImages reproduced with permission from Lazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyle by Graham Young, published by New Holland, $29.99.04 Mar 04:30 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
WorldDid dead novelist solve PM's cold case?A Swedish newspaper has intensified a decades-old allegation by dead crime novelist Stieg Larsson about who was behind the 1986 murder of the country's Prime Minister.25 Feb 09:35 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
