The Auckland Writers Festival's new artistic director on living in the book festival world, and what she's reading right now.

From Keri Hulme to Denny's, writing styles to book recs: settle in for an epic conversation between two poets across land and sea.

From protests to politics; bathwater to Birnam Wood – a behind-the-scenes look at who and what influenced Eleanor Catton’s latest bestseller.

'How did we end up here in gyms? When did exercising begin?'

Not sure where to start with the bustling festival programme? Here are our top 10 picks.

Lit festivals need to change, warns a recent Guardian article. But they are, constantly, says one festival organiser.

'I was trying to write and read and teach conventional, realistic, linear fiction. And I was bored out of my mind.'

The first major New Zealand-Chinese play returns for the Auckland Writers Festival.

It celebrates some of our greatest writers from the past, present and future, in a space that reminds us of the power of being Māori.

We leave behind our books, our signatures, our dirty linen in hotel rooms. We take away a renewed belief in what we are doing.

Cracks and quips by our country's best writers.

She is one of the most beloved socialist figures in New Zealand. Chinese printers said: 'We will cancel this title.'

Ahead of her appearance at the Auckland Writers Festival, the much-loved Gilead author talks to Sam Brooks.

Books for the very best season of all.

The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.