Paul Theroux is one of the great travel writers because he makes you eager to visit where he writes about, even when he sharply gets what's wrong with it.

Dozens of authors will visit for the Auckland Writers Festival but what's it like to be a visiting author far from home?

As with most Sunday mornings, I was looking for something to satisfy my caffeine craving - and some food to accompany it.

Each week Megan Nicol Reed talks through what's on all of our minds.

Singer-songwriter-mother Anika Moa tells Greg Bruce why she doesn't like happy endings.

The look of luxe gets a modern and nonchalant update this season.

A lewd display of street harassment doesn't ruin our meals - the food does that all on its own.

Fifty years after she became America's most famous feminist, Gloria Steinem tells Gaby Wood why the fight is far from over.

The question: "What do you do in your free time?" Why do people hate this? Well, it's because most people don't do anything in their free time, writes Verity Johnson.

Play around with fashion's favourite fall-back: hard versus soft.

How did an expat South African PR dynamo become one of Auckland's most influential women? Greg Bruce meets the force that is Deborah Pead.

Turns out, not everyone's a foodie. Kim Knight meets the people who couldn't care less about your salted caramel kale.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction

A Euro-influenced restaurant offers deli shopping and floral fare to go while you wait.