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Greg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habits

I like to read - I really do - but do I really?

Greg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authors

Characters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing

'For the first time winter becomes too much'

'You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'

'Boy, this got deep' - R.E.M's Michael Stipe on art, politics and sexuality

Karl Puschmann chats to the former frontman about his new lockdown inspired book.

On talking about writing

Steve Braunias on walking and talking

The Auckland restaurant where time (and prices) stands still

Looking for somewhere new to eat this weekend? We've got you sorted.

Stacey Abrams: 'If you don't raise your hand, people won't give you attention'

Abrams: 'Introversion is how I navigate the world but it is not in conflict with ambition'

The exclusive New York hotel that set women free

Grace Kelly and Joan Didion graced its halls, where no man was allowed above the lobby.

Writer discovers 'this is real for them …'

Personal experience helps create authenticity, says award-winning writer

From Russia, with lust, cocaine and tragedy

From memory, in the original, Anna and Vronsky never did lines of coke before having sex.

Even the hummus looks like a supermodel: Restaurants to check out this weekend

Looking for somewhere to eat this weekend? Find carrots worth crossing the isthmus for.

'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

Will the feel-good movie event of the year make you feel good?

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie turn their attention to In The Heights.

'It's all very good advice, except "Don't mess too much with your hair"

Auckland University astrophysicist Heloise Stevance on the music that's shaped her life.

"Racism is like a cluster bomb for us here in Aotearoa"

Polynesian Panther and Pacific academic Dr Melani Anae on healing from the dawn raids.