Entertainment12 Questions: Baruk JacobDigital outreach librarian Baruk Jacob set up Auckland Libraries' new 'Maker Spaces'.28 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBlack Hermione fine with JKJ.K. Rowling has said she "loves" the fact that Hermione Granger will be played by a black actress in the highly anticipated new Harry Potter play.22 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentEdna O'Brien's remarkable legendEdna O'Brien's new novel is about how we can still be seduced by evil people. Francesca Wade meets her.18 Dec 10:00 PM
SportBooks: Suggested sports reading for the stockingIf you're not sure what to get Dad this Christmas, Andrew Alderson has a few ideas of the literary kind.13 Dec 12:22 AM
EntertainmentBook review: Gilliamesque, Terry GilliamTerry Gilliam is the odd man out of the Python squad, the warm and loose American among uptight Englishmen. Yet he may be the team's secret weapon.11 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Public Library and other stories, Ali SmithT.S. Eliot once wrote that the critic's job was to "exhibit the relations of literature - not to 'life', as something contrasted to literature, but to all the other activities, which, together with literature, are the components of life".11 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentFirst look at The BFGDisney has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming film The BFG.10 Dec 06:30 AM
EntertainmentBook review: Beatlebone, Kevin BarryAuthor Kevin Barry's latest novel Beatlebone delves into the mind of John Lennon as he seeks the solitude of a tiny Irish island that he bought for 1700 pounds in 1968.08 Dec 09:13 PM
LifestyleInteractive: 2015's best food booksThe best books for the foodie on your Christmas list.07 Dec 07:07 PM
LifestyleChildren can lose reading ability over summerThe summer holidays are for swimming and playing in the sun but parents should add another activity to their kids' agenda - reading.05 Dec 08:22 PM
OpinionHerald on Sunday editorial: Give kids a reading habit these holidaysParents, we report, are being urged to read to their kids over the holidays, or ensure they keep reading, to maintain their mental development.05 Dec 04:00 PM
LifestyleSex is neither good nor bad, but writing makes it soBad sex. Isn't it enough to have had it without having to read it as well?04 Dec 09:46 PM
EntertainmentAuthor's 'terrifying' rut after winning top book awardAndrew Miller tells Tim Martin about the 'terrifying' rut he fell into after winning the Costa Book of the Year.04 Dec 04:00 PM
New ZealandWellingtonians bring quidditch to lifeIt's not every day you see people running around a field with a broomstick between their legs.03 Dec 03:43 AM
WorldMein Kampf returns to German shelves after 70-year banWith the copyright due to expire at the end of this month, the long-banned Nazi bible will soon be revived.02 Dec 05:51 PM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Peter WellsIt sounds incredible now that it took so long, but it was well received and won the Best First Book award.02 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentNew Hulk comic smashes all you thought you knew about the characterMarvel comics is about to obliterate everything you've come to know about <i>The Hulk.</i>02 Dec 05:00 AM
EntertainmentJK Rowling steps in to explain why Harry Potter named his son after SnapeJK Rowling explains Harry Potter named his middle child Albus Severus out of "forgiveness and respect" to Severus Snape.29 Nov 05:20 AM
New ZealandMost popular books in prisons revealedHeroic fantasy books, Jack Reacher novels and crime thrillers top the reading list inside our prisons.28 Nov 09:44 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Vivid - The Paul Hartigan StoryAlthough Paul Hartigan's art has roamed from pop-art painting and posters, to Polaroids and beyond, his neon work is the most familiar.27 Nov 10:17 PM
EntertainmentNZ Book Award finalists namedThe 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards inaugural longlist has been announced. There are 40 long-listed works; ten each from the four awards categories - illustrated non-fiction, general non-fiction, poetry and fiction.25 Nov 10:41 PM
EntertainmentHunger Games prequel a possibilityA <i>Hunger Games</i> prequel might be in the works, according to series' director Francis Lawrence.24 Nov 08:40 AM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Emma WrightWaiheke artist Emma Wright became a best-selling author after blogging about her art, her life and her battle with bulimia.23 Nov 04:30 PM
EntertainmentCatton and Mouse in top 10The Fault in Our Stars, which debuted at No 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for children's chapter books, had been borrowed 3006 times by this week.21 Nov 07:25 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Best New Writing On ... Arrival, John FreemanJohn Freeman shot to international fame with his contentious 2009 book <i>Shrinking the World: The 4000-Year Story Of How Email Came To Rule Our Lives</i>.21 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Going South, Colin HoggThere's no easy way to find out that an old mate has terminal cancer but reading a book about it has got to be one of the most moving.20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Pacific - The Once and Future Ocean, Simon WinchesterWill the Pacific save us? In his biography of an ocean, Simon Winchester finds an optimistic note among all the doom we humans trail in our wake.20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick DeWittThe style of the narrative can best be described as a darkly comic fairy tale. All the familiar tropes are there; jilted hero, beautiful damsel, dark castle,mysterious forest and a collection of untrustworthy characters who mean our hero no good.19 Nov 08:45 PM
