Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles.

As winter settles in, what better time to revisit some of the most celebrated books of the year? The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in March delivered a powerful shortlist, blending poetic insight, rigorous non-fiction, and fiction that lingers long after the final page.

Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles.

Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles.

The Netflix hit Adolescence has shown parents that icons have taken on new significance among youths. Learn the true meanings in our interactive guide.

If you need an antidote to all the grimness of the world, there is a show on Prime Video called Last One Laughing. When I started watching it, we laughed so much — up in the higher register, where it borders on a scream and physically hurts — that our distant neighbours must have thought we were in the middle of a kidnapping attempt!

What does it mean for a novelist to be brave? Voicing inconvenient truths? Challenging received wisdom? Speaking truth to power – wherever that power may lie? I’ve been reflecting on these questions after reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s big, noisy, ambitious new novel, Dream Count.

See the latest online exhibitions from Getty Museum.

Explore the latest online exhibitions and content from the Getty museum and see how you can donate to the LA Fire Relief Fund.

Explore the latest virtual content from the Getty and listen to various intriguing podcasts on topics you may not have explored before.

Something a little bit different this month — we’ve collated a series of online events for you to consider that are being held online from the Getty Museum.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar, was set to be a pillar of the establishment before dropping out to pursue country music. The singer’s greatest hits came from the years he spent as a struggling songwriter chronicling messy, itinerant lives.

‘Art has made my life magical at a time when I thought it would be unbearable,” Billy Connolly says. “My disease creeps up on me — every day it gets stranger and more different. I don’t know how I would have coped without drawing. It’s taken me out of the scene and put me somewhere else, where I can survey it from a different angle.”

Looking for something new to read? This collection of recent releases offers something for all tastes – from local stories from Tina Makereti, Samuel Whitelock and Polly Markus, to international fiction that spans the cloisters of Cambridge to Cape Cod, and some inspiring cookbooks.

Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles.

Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles.

The Sunday Times Bestseller List is the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and the one that every author wants to be on. The listings are based on data collected each Saturday for the following Sunday by Nielsen BookScan (which has been collecting digital data since 1998) and the chart is the most accurate and comprehensive estimation of book sales in the country.