According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

Reverie, a top-down adventure game inspired by Maori legends and myth, will have players guiding a young boy on Summer vacation, helping him explore a seaside town as well as creep through dungeons in ...

WHALE FALL: Poems, by David Baker. (Norton, $26.95.) Baker’s 12th volume of poetry finds him in a wistful, elegiac mood, paying witness to the shared frailties of the natural world and the aging, ...