'In a world that feels on the brink of something not wonderful at all, what if fostering a simple awe in nature was the first vital step toward resistance?'

The best sessions we saw at the Aotea Centre last weekend.

Our picks for this year's most unmissable sessions.

While record audiences are flocking to festivals, publishers are shrinking and shops are closing down. What’s eating the books sector?

Our top picks from the hefty programme that landed this week.

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

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.