For the week ending 15 May 2022

Reviewed by Anton Blank

Reviewed by Stephanie Johnson

 ‘A tiny speck in the void’: the finalists for this year’s Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction discuss point of view, bit-parts, politics and plots…

For the week ending 1 May 2022

Reviewed by Sally Blundell

Reviewed by Guy Somerset

Reviewed by Sophie van Waardenberg

Reviewed by Rebecca Hill

Reviewed by Sophie van Waardenberg

Reviewed by Bryan Walpert

Reviewed by Stephanie Johnson

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

Reviewed by Angelique Kasmara

Kelly Ana Morey on NZ literary icon and ANZL Fellow Keri Hulme

Top sellers, great reads and the ones that got away.

‘My father would be so disappointed in me.’ Rachael King, Paula Morris, Sarah Shieff and Philip Temple on NZ literary legacies.

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

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

‘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?