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Book excerpt: Crash course
As Top Gear’s The Stig, Ben Collins knows more than most what the consequences of speed can be. Here, in an excerpt from his new book, he shares top tips on safety, and parking.
Books: Small steps towards fascism
The conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.
Dunham sorry for 'predator' joke
Lena Dunham has apologised for joking about being a "sexual predator" in her memoir.
Grace Dent: There's a huge taboo over children's sexuality
The ‘incident’ with the Girls’ creator’s younger sister highlights our confusion over children’s sexuality, writes Grace Dent.
Win at rock, paper, scissors
Thought rock, paper, scissors was a game of chance? Think again, says William Poundstone.
Amy Poehler spills the beans in new memoir
Comedy queen Amy Poehler’s new memoir spills the beans on her divorce and her dalliance with cocaine. Now, the much-feted comedian is on a new mission — to get rid of the cult of cool and promote humour that’s for everyone, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
Books: Pulling the plug
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.
Books: Elementary, my dear
Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.
Why there's so much love for S.P.Q.R (+recipe)
S.P.Q.R, hallmark of Auckland dining and Ponsonby road staple for over twenty years, publishes the cookbook S.P.Q.R with the restaurant's recipes, photographs and, republished here, a tribute written by Simon Farrell-Green.
Travel book review: <I>View From The Road</I>
This journey along State Highway 1 show that the nation's backbone is a place of life as well as an inanimate stretch of bitumen, writes Alex Robertson.
Alan Duff: Our future lies in our past
What compelled a 20-year-old Irish youth last month to murder his two younger brothers after finding out he was adopted?
Hairy Maclary project nears final leg
The Hairy Maclary sculpture project planned for Tauranga's redeveloped waterfront is closing in on its fundraising target.
Al Brown: Biography of a restaurant
He used to be a fine dining chef in Wellington. Then he had an epiphany and moved to Auckland. Greg Dixon meets Al Brown, the man who learned to relax at dinner and made us do the same.
Books: Ian Wedde goes there and back again
Ian Wedde retraces his childhood steps from Blenheim to Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and Jordan, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.