If somebody locks himself in a stranger's spare room for months, is he escaping the world or facing up to it?

Giant George may be the world’s tallest dog — 1.5m tall and 2m long — but his owner, Dave Nasser, says he’s a big softie.

The movie will be out soon but read the book first, says Nicky Pellegrino.

Hana Schofield is the co-author of the best-selling memoir, Goodbye Sarajevo.

Joyce Carol Oates, a prolific and award-winning writer, has assembled and revised a collection of essays and reviews that originally appeared in places such as the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.

Nifty title. Nifty concept. Stories about work - manual work; skilled work; responsible, itinerant, above-board or undercover work. Nifty aim, also: all proceeds go to fund youth literacy programmes across the United States.

The most important skill a photographer can have is learning to see: the beautiful in the bland and the interesting in the immaterial.

We still know little for sure about the prospects for intelligent fiction in a digital age. Yet most observers agree that the status of the professional "career novelist" may shift from that of a rare species to a deeply endangered one.

Lady Gaga's forthcoming pictorial book will include images of her in the shower.

Model, film star, now writer: Grace Coddington is set to tell all in her memoirs.

New Zealand writer Tim Radford tells Stephen Jewell why his new book about roots defies genre and how reading Moby Dick can affect one’s sense of place.

Geraldine Brooks very nearly missed the inspiration for her latest novel, this month's feature book Caleb's Crossing.

If you haven't already heard quite enough about Rugby World Cup 2011 then this is for you.

Tim Carlsen is an Auckland actor who is performing in Silo Theatre's I Love You Bro, now playing at the Herald Theatre.

Aravind Adiga turns a mirror on Indian society, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Vivienne Plumb's new collection of poetry - beautifully designed by poet and publisher Helen Rickerby - reminds me that poetry books can feel so good in the hand. Plumb's poems have a chance to breathe on the page.