The Bilbao effect has its critics, but would it work in Auckland?

A little whitebait goes a long way at The Blue Breeze Inn.

Succession's big business deals have nothing on real life corporate chicanery

"I feel so lucky to have sisters because I didn't have siblings."

"The wonder of this world enables all artifice to collapse."

"It's hard not to take the criticism personally."

His new book, The Forgotten Coast, wrestles with family, community and loss.

A global land art project a quarter of a century in the making

Poet Himali McInnes is lured by fiction despite intentions to read non-fiction

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review Petite Maman.

The tale of a street.

Eden Hore kept cattle on his Central Otago farm – and ball gowns in his tractor shed.

The rights and wrongs about writing about another country - even if you are an expat.

Good ideas that make cities better: The cycleway on New York's Brooklyn Bridge.

Diversity in children's books is vital, writes Ataria Sharman

Auckland enters Red on December 3, Ryan. Red. All going well.

2021 - a year of great cookbooks

Why we search for pure escapism in our holiday reading

Greg Bruce tries to encourage his kids to read more, with mixed results.

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch The Shrink Next Door.

"I'm just like a little cheeky monkey sometimes."

Good ideas that make cities better: San Francisco's Piano Flower Festival.

Dinner with a side of creative thinking? One last takeout before the great reopening.

Fifty years after their first publication, Hilma Wolitzer's remain as relevant as ever.

"Every platform has a strain of the plague right now."

"Covers. That's what originally draws me into any book."

Authentic ramen is an elaborate dish to cook, but simply soothing to eat

Steve Braunias farewells the left of the map.

"Someone gave me a cheat code to life and I don't know how to feel about it."