Literature

Historian Redmer Yska is the author of A Strange, Beautiful, Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington 1888-1903. While researching the book Yska discovered Mansfield's first published story… Audio

Nina Powles describes herself as a 'hungry girl.' This talented young Eurasian writer talks about food, feminism, life in Shanghai and her blog 'Dumpling Queen.' Audio, Gallery

Kiwi artists, writers and musicians who feel a connection to the Ancient World are being asked to share their stories for a new website. New Zealand was after all where the long running series of… Audio

The writer Ashleigh Young has won a prestigious US literature prize for non-fiction writing, worth over 230 thousand US dollars. The essayist and poet is one of eight writers - and the first New… Audio

Devoney Looser is a professor of English at Arizona State University and author or editor of six books on literature by women. Her new book, The Making of Jane Austen, will be out in June 2017… Audio

What was sex like in 18^th-century England? It was a time when you could be hanged for homosexuality yet gentlemen had penis-shaped shrubs in their gardens, says Julie Peakman. Audio

Megan Whelan look at how revolutions shape – and are shaped by – fashion, literature and the visual arts, with Dr David Maskill, Dr Margaret Medlyn and Dr James Meffan. Audio

The text of Bob Dylan's speech in acceptance of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016. Video

Award winning and new literary talent Heidi North-Bailey is the second New Zealand writer to undertake the prestigious Shanghai Writer's Residency this year. Heidi shares her dreams with Lynda… Audio, Gallery

Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna… Audio

In this week’s episode Upbeat producer Zoë George turns the page on poor etiquette at book launches. Unity Books’ Dylan Sherwood explains whether we have to buy the book that is being launched, what… Audio

The announcement of the winner of the inaugural Surrey Hotel Steve Braunias Memorial Writers Residency in Association with The Spinoff. The residency received over 50 entries, and a selection panel… Audio