At last, the original Ponsonby village, at the Herne Bay end of the road, is making a comeback.

Danielle Wright talks to the talented folk behind the brand new Family Day at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Block colours and classic lines are where it’s at for ball season. Just don’t leave home without a coat.

The menu sounded super fresh and this was enhanced by the visual delights lined up in the glass cabinets at the counter.

In her second short story collection, her first in 15 years, Lorrie Moore peels back life’s outer layer and reveals what lies within.

The old cliche says you can take the man out of his birthplace but you can't take the birthplace out of the man.

Mum's kitchen Four of our favourite Federal St chefs tell us how their mums cooked with love.

In a Canvas exclusive, Eleanor Catton talks to Professor Jim Al-Khalili about physics, life, the universe and everything.

I feel pretty confident that this first book by Seattle-based Kim Fu will be the only novel you read this year with an Oriental-Canadian trans-sexual protagonist.

Our stereotyped image of the Italian restaurant is bustle, informality, cheerful clamour and theatrical accents.

Sharp tailoring, mixed with boyish insouciance, maketh the man.

They’re the kids born totally wired, the first generation who will spend their whole lives in a world where the planet’s accumulated wisdom is available instantly at the touch of a finger. And the first of them have just left school.

Best-selling author Matt Haig, 38, is about to have two more books published. Here, he explains how he only started writing to cope with his sudden, life-threatening depression.

The menu was packed with an array of French, gourmet brunch options.

"Donny Mac was released at Easter time, about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good."

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, now based in Miami, is fascinated by Americans’ eating habits, he tells Stephen Jewell.

We'd been meaning to try Cazador on Dominion Rd ever since we'd heard that this was one of Auckland's iconic family restaurants. It

British authors Nicci Gerrard and Sean French tell Stephen Jewell why their book collaboration works so well.

I do not read a lot of noir crime fiction which, on the face of it, means I should not be writing this review — well, on the face the book presents after a few dozen pages, anyway.