The wealth gap is provoking much contemporary anxiety. But the financial imbalance between, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and the Big-Mac slinger is a shadow of that which existed between the first American capitalist barons.

In Richard Jackson's book about a terrorist, sections of text are covered by heavy black lines.

Have you spoiled Game of Thrones for yourself? Chris Schulz has. Here's his cautionary tale.

After years of exploring Sweden’s darkest fears in his fiction, Henning Mankell, the creator of Wallander, faces his own anxiety after being diagnosed with cancer. Andrew Anthony writes.

Three Aucklanders tell Alan Perrott how they reinvented themselves.

Hope and hopelessness make a funny yet thoughtful combination, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Lea Michele says her illustrated memoir and lifestyle tome, Brunette Ambition, will be out in May.

Do authors own their characters? And if a writer retrospectively meddles with the fate of a beloved figure, should fans pay attention?

A brave Kiwi is trailblazing a new literary trend - women reading books in the nude.

At the start of 1985, Maire Leadbeater took her two children for a January break on Kawau Island.

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City have delighted readers for four decades and brought gay life into the mainstream. Now the ninth book brings the series to an end. Hermione Hoby reports.

For a parent there is only one thing more precious than their child: seeing that child fast asleep.

While the summer holiday season is still going strong, there's nothing better than whiling away the hours with a good travel book. Linda Herrick reviews a selection of the latest.

Girl power is taking on a whole new meaning in the reading world, with more and more books featuring brave young heroines as key characters.