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The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Sit back to Chris Tse's new poems, including "Karaoke for the end of the world".

Delia Ephron writes through cancer to a happy ending

Delia Epron's new book is a medical thriller, cancer memoir, love story and hero's journey

A brief encounter with one of New Zealand's bestselling writers

David Hill recalls a meeting that went wrong at Easter 60 years ago

Lessons from a sex therapist: Lust, secrets and surprising reason people have affairs

Times: "The pandemic hurt people's sexual life, there's no doubt about that."

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Indulge in Gigi Fenster's book you will be thinking about for days after you finish it.

How a couple from Glenfield came to be a force on social media

YouTube stars Abbey and Money Singh tell Greg Bruce how things almost fell apart.

Joy Cowley: 'The mystery central to my life'

'Times of pain and loss emptied me to make room for something new,' says Joy Cowley

Pair on a mission to put a writer back in the writer's house

"I'd say by 2024, there will be a writer living here" - Naomi McCleary.

Deborah Challinor: 'My dreams are very intense when I'm finishing a book'

The best-selling novelist speaks to Elisabeth Easther.

Pfizer's Mr Big: My $3 billion gamble to beat Covid

Times: Some world leaders called once, Albert Bourla says. Others wouldn't stop.

An author wrote about her sister's murder. It led to a breakthrough

New York Times: "I was able finally to gather the courage to open up the boxes."

In Amber's Wake reviewed and a conversation with Annabel Abbs

Bring more culture into your life with the definitive Canvas edit.

Maria Samuela, inspired by people and memories

Tulia Thompson talks to writer Maria Samuela about her inspirations

Once upon a time in Māori art

Extract from Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art

Meghan Markle being sued over 'poverty' claims

Samantha Markle is suing her sister over her "rags to royalty" story.

Shane Warne on the ball that shook the world

Australian cricket great wrote about that infamous delivery bowled 25 years ago.

Five quick questions with The Final Call author Jen Shieff

The author of The Final Call on becoming a film reviewer, the 70s and Dickens.

When her husband said he wanted to die, Amy Bloom listened

New York Times: 'Brian's strong wish was that nobody would stop him, and he got his wish.'