Books
Book review: Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Sonja de Friez reviews Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert published by Hachette Audio
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
Welcome to May and a bumper crop of cultural events - which makes this week's Culture 101 Fast Favourite guest an easy pick, given he embraces all fields, often at once. Otepoti Dunedin's David… Audio
How the CIA's book smuggling helped lift the Iron Curtain
During the Cold War the CIA managed to smuggle ten million books across the Iron Curtain. The banned titles included Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, and Agatha Christie. Audio
Kate de Goldi's favourite winter reads
Novelist, children's writer, and Arts Foundation Laureate Kate de Goldi is back with her favourite winter reads. Audio
The name's Rimington. Stella Rimington
What's better than 007? Stella Rimington, of course. She's the former director general of British counter-intelligence and security agency MI5. Audio
'We can never underestimate the value of being able to see ourselves in stories'
Shilo Kino's latest novel 'All that We Know' is about a young woman reclaiming her reo as a disconnected urban Māori.
What a cookbook stoush tells us about who owns recipes
A clash between two food influencers over a caramel slice and a baklava recipe highlights a legal grey area.
Can cookbooks really be plagiarised?
Two Australian cookbook authors are in a dispute over claimed plagiarism of recipes for caramel slice and baklava. RNZ cookbook editor Kathy Paterson weighs in. Audio
Bookmarks with Chris Hipkins
It's time for Bookmarks where we invite interesting New Zealanders onto the show to discuss their cultural interests Today Jesse is joined in the Auckland studio by Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Audio
Best-selling cookbook author denies plagiarising recipes
Brooke Bellamy rejects claims by popular cook Nagi Maehashi that two recipes in a cookbook are copied.
Kiwis shouldn't complain about the cost of coffee - we've got it good
Coffee influencer and author Celeste Wong says we're getting a good deal comparing the quality and cost to our UK counterparts.
Book Critic: master of horror, Mariana Enríquez
Pip Adam talks about the horror maestro's work and the horror genre in general. Audio
Book review: Preachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa
Harry Broad reviews Preachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand by Susannah Grant published by Otago University Press Audio
'Cheeky' new children's book swims to shelves
Hawke's Bay author Shelley Burne-Field has written her newest book with heaps of heart for young readers.
Book review: Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
Melanie O'Loughlin reviews Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata Audio
We know what our kids are watching. What about what they’re reading?
Just as we might set up parental controls on our devices, should we be censoring what our children read?
Irish writer Colm Tóibín on new book 'Long Island'
Colm Tóibín's latest book Long Island returns to the world of his novel Brooklyn, a book that was so popular in Ireland that one every 150 people bought a copy. Audio
Controlled mess with celebrated illustrator Sydney Smith
In the world of children's literature, the Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international distinction awarded to authors and illustrators of children's books. Canadian illustrator Sydney… Audio, Gallery
The Illegals' Shaun Walker
The Illegals is described as the definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, Audio
Books in books: When fictional characters are readers
Dr Karen Attar is the curator of rare books at the Senate House Library in the University of London, and author of new book Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction. Audio
