for the week ending 28 November

Reviewed by David Eggleton

Reviewed by Josie Shapiro

Reviewed by Paddy Richardson

Reviewed by Ian Wedde

Reviewed by Sophie van Waardenberg

Reviewed by Victor Rodger

Reviewed by Sally Blundell

Reviewed by Angelique Kasmara

Reviewed by Tom Moody

Reviewed by Stephanie Johnson

Reviewed by Stephanie Johnson

Reviewed by Rachel O’Connor

Reviewed by Michael Steven

‘In rude health’: Stephanie Johnson on NZ writing, publishing, and genres that refuse to die.

Reviewed by Saradha Koirala

Reviewed by Lynley Edmeades

‘NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing’ : the Ockhams 2021 Fiction Round Table.

Who’s in – and how you can read extracts.

‘I’m sceptical about any group who want others to regard them as special.’

David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.

Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.

Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?

‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.

What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?

Not enough diversity in your reading diet? Here are 21 reasons to buy/borrow/read books by Maori and Pasifika writers right away.

What kind of house does our literature inhabit?