Break a sweat (or maybe not) in workout clothes that work overtime.

Jodi Picoult has written 23 novels, eight of them No 1 bestsellers. Just don’t call her work ‘women’s fiction’, says Bryony Gordon.

Apart from Euro, Apero is the only wine bar we've tried that takes the food side of the experience seriously.

Nearly 40 years after the first IVF birth, scientists are still unsure of the long-term effects of their laboratory Beginnings. Helen Massy-Beresford reports.

Social media has been accused of everything from killing conversation to making us lonely. But if you do it right it can do the complete opposite. Greg Dixon, a social media dummy, has six pieces of advice for other social media dummies.

When a computer virus hacks into the Australian prison system in 2010, it also infects the American corporations that licensed the software.

Nigella Lawson on childhood, family and why she’s the queen of onion soup.

Keep things light and fresh with a dash of elegant turn-of-the-century nostalgia.

Veganism is now a global obsession with some heavyweight backers. Carroll Du Chateau looks at how a diet free of cheese, meat, fish and eggs went from hippie to hip.

The menu is a short, sweet list of just three “morning glories” — bacon and egg doonas, toasted muesli and fresh, warm beignets. Plus the perfectly brewed Havana Coffee Co beans.

Mussolini hated pasta and Hitler, famously a vegetarian, liked to eat baby pigeons. A new book tells us what tyrants liked for tea. John Walsh reports.

Linda Herrick delves into four new cookbooks that transport the palate around the globe.

One of the immutable laws of television is that there can never be too many cooking shows.

Canvas magazine interviewed a wide range of Kiwis this year, take a look back at some of them in these great reads from the past year.

One white, one red and one in-between wine from three producers who have managed to capture the flavours of summer perfectly.

His child’s first day of school hit Alan Perrott harder than he expected. Here, he reflects on the joy — and pain — of watching his sons grow, and letting go (just a little bit).

What’s not to love about summer? But the sunny season can be so much more than an endless round of beaches and barbecues. Here are 25 ideas for making this one truly memorable.

Cool kids take casual dressing to the next level.

If you write a sex scene, no one believes it’s fiction, writes Jon Stock.

From crack addiction to blockbusters, Tom Hardy’s path to stardom has been an unconventional one. He still thrives on dysfunction, he tells Matt Mueller.

Do you want to build a global phenomenon? That’s exactly what Disney did with its stratospherically successful animated film, Frozen. Kat Brown explains what went so right.

With a new novel out, and a potential film finally on the horizon, Patricia Cornwell tells Judith Woods how Dr Kay Scarpetta was held hostage by Hollywood.

Neil Gaiman’s latest fantasy is an attempt to restore to fairy tales some of the danger the Grimm brothers removed. Gaby Wood reports.

Some Luck is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s trilogy set in the Iowa badlands. Boyd Tonkin reports.

"Short stories don't sell," is the current mantra of publishers everywhere, as a way of refusing to look at proffered manuscripts in case they love them and are sorely tempted.

On the day after the birth of his son who wasn't really his son, Joseph the carpenter watched the sun come up over the little town of Bethlehem.