After jumping from one relationship to the next, Melissa Febos found herself in bed with a woman she scarcely knew. “Though I ...

The 80-year-old writer shares his "extremely humbling" experience of learning to speak and write the Māori language in the new RNZ podcast Witi Underwater.

I get up from the bed and sit down at my desk, push aside a random book, and open up the first page of a brand-new Moleskine journal and begin to write—but only for my allotted two minutes.

At least, that’s how it is for me. Maybe it might be for you, too. When I start writing a book, I need to quite literally collect my thoughts. It’s the fun part — when the project is all ...