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Dad bod, amirite? Dictionary adds hundreds of new words

You may be surprised at the new dictionary-appropriate words.

Home and Away star's shocking on-air interview moment

Aussie actress Lynne McGranger learned some startling news during a live radio interview

Editorial: Like Lonely Planet, we love Auckland - we can't wait for it to reopen

OPINION: Auckland best city to visit? In normal times, yes.

Butcherbird: The magpies are behaving strangely

Strange songbirds and dark secrets are plentiful in Cassie Hart's new horror novel.

Siobhan Harvey reviews Sleeping with Stones: confessional and cathartic

Sleeping with Stones is an adept poetry collection spanning the realms of grief

Eleanor Black resolves complex problems in her downtime through reading crime fiction

Crime and personal essays are lockdown fodder for Eleanor Black

A novel of dark humour and cutting observations

John Boyne delivers a novel of dark humour and cutting observations

Kirsten McDougall's dreary apocalypse: 'You can't just pussyfoot around anymore'

She's a Killer is intended as an alarm for a New Zealand in environmental crisis.

The female experience and the talisman of food

A collection of stories to savour by an award-winning writer

Sonya Wilson: 'I'm a sucker for a good opening line'

Sonya Wilson on her books, aimed at all ages

Putting a Māori lens over a classic collection of myths

Paul Little looks at a new version of a well-known Māori myth collection

Sex, drugs and a sporting tell-all? Sonny Bill Williams has finally found his voice

How a shy teenager became a sporting great - and a headline magnet.

Jeffrey Archer on his prison years and his latest crime caper

Times: Author also reveals how he inadvertently helped finance an attempted coup.

Anthony Doerr: 'A fable is a drug.'

'Story and books are a vehicle of how we communicate between generations.'

After Dark, by Annette Lees: 'The parallel night world is as close as our front door'

Annette Lees evokes the power of the night

Joan Mackenzie: 'I often like a bit of history with my fiction'

On fiction with a touch of history and an astonishing read.

My Story: Author Donovan Bixley on telling Hollywood to 'bugger off'

'Before I made a living from books I'd do anything to pay the bills.'

Reading is a class act for kids young and old

The joy of reading to students and the politics of question time