Author Interview

Well before the tragedy in Christchurch journalist and author Ginger Gorman warned about the dangers of Facebook Live and the connection between online rhetoric and murder. Audio

The number of people who die trying to reach the summit of K2 is one of the highest of any mountain. Audio, Gallery

A bleak futuristic world of injustice is the setting for Tina Shaw's new Young Adult novel Ursa. The thriller is launched at the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and National Awards Day in Auckland… Audio

Renee Liang is a second-generation Chinese Kiwi poet, playwright, paediatrician, medical researcher and fiction writer, who was appointed a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to the arts… Audio

Canadian Writer and academic David Chariandy has written two critically received novels. Brother, published in 2017, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction prize, the Toronto Book Award and was named a… Audio

British novellist and screenwriter Ian McEwan has been listed by The Times as amongst "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and he's received numerous awards and accolades for his work… Audio

Fascism wears a very different face than it did 50 or 100 years ago, according to author and activist Laurie Penny. “This new kind of villainy, it looks like the people in your street, it looks like… Audio

It might feel like the Christchurch earthquakes struck a lifetime ago, but the city and its residents are still recovering, both physically and mentally. Audio

Welcome to Mars, and adventures in interactive sci-fi fiction games where you play a safecracker in one last heist! That's the premise of The Martian Job told in a relatively new form of digital… Audio

For more than 27 years, Bob Langert made it his mission to serve up sustainability with the 75 hamburgers severed every second at McDonalds Audio

David Stratton is an Australian based film critic, he has served as President of the International Critics Jury for the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, and he's a former critic for international… Audio

When Gordon Brown was born, life expectancy in New Zealand was just 46 years for men and 44 for women. Now, at the age of 103, the car enthusiast is driving well into his second century. Gordon is one… Audio, Gallery

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman thought she'd achieved a lifelong dream when she landed a job as a professional violinist but she was unwittingly part of a musical sham. Audio

Elizabeth Stokoe is a professor of social interaction who analysed thousands of real-life conversations for her new book Talk. She talks to Jim Mora about the most effective words to use when you want… Video, Audio

Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and lives in Wellington. He's the author of four novels - The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), winner of the Prize in Modern… Audio

Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels, including Home Fire which won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker. She is a reviewer and columnist for The… Audio

An act of terror has no place in an argument for or against immigration, says investigative journalist Åsne Seierstad, author of One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway.  Audio

Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks to Kathryn Ryan about his 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy novel Less. He is a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival which runs 13-19 May this year. Audio

With more than 100 species vanishing every day from the face of the planet, it's easy to let our hearts get in the way of our heads when it comes decisions about how to save precious species from… Audio

Young adult author Eileen Merriman's third book Invisibly Breathing explores attitudes to coming out as gay, and to bullying, both at school and at home. Eileen works full-time as a consultant… Audio