Books

Ralph McAllister reviews The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White, which is published by Bloomsbury. Audio

A new partnership between bookworms and Hogwarts launches tomorrow, promising to cast a spell on young men to get them to read. The New Zealand Book Council has partnered with UK publishers of Harry… Audio

Laura Caygill reviews Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller, which is published by Hachette. Audio

Louise O'Brien from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Books, reviews The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti, which is published by Penguin Random House. Audio

The so-called 'Authorship Question', the controversy over whether Shakespeare wrote the works in his name remains a remarkably popular dispute, and is closely bound up with one of the world's other… Audio

Elisabeth Easther reviews Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale, which is published by Hachette. Audio

"The object of art is not to acquire wealth. Become a great artist and other things will come." Robert Schumann

Carole Beu from the Women's Bookshop reviews Milkman by Anna Burns, which is published by Faber & Faber. "This remarkable novel, longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize, is set in an unknown city… Audio

The prestigious Ngaio Marsh Awards for crime writing were announced on Saturday night at the Word Festival in Christchurch. And two novels where children are put at risk - in Havelock North and in… Audio

Authors without borders have banded together to write the Freedom Papers. It's edited by Nick Barley who is in New Zealand for the Word Christchurch festival.  Audio

Charlotte Graham-McLay reviews The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

"Sonya Renee Taylor looks beyond the ideas of "body positivity" that have been co-opted by corporations to explore the… Audio

Jenna Todd from Timeout bookstore reviews Never Anyone but You by Rupert Thomson, published by Little, Brown. Audio

Thirty centuries of Samoan tattooing have been chronicled in a new book Tatau, released earlier this month. Te Papa curator Sean Mallon and  French anthropologist Sebastien Galliot collaborated on the… Audio

For 60 years, Otago University's Robert Burns Fellowship has helped dozens of writers take chances and produce significant, unforgettable work. Audio

We think of great comics and graphic novels as the perfect combination of illustrations and text. But Silent or Wordless comics are becoming increasingly popular. Audio