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

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

Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.

Writers’ Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.

An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.

A poem from the winner of this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

‘I’m basically cheerful’. Stead at 86, on the work of a lifetime.

‘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.

Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.​

Fiona Kidman on a ‘split personality’ in London and Paris.

Owen Marshall’s 2017 New Zealand Book Council Lecture

What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?

David Taylor assesses the 20/20 Poetry Collection, and what we’re exploring – and avoiding – in our literature of unease.

Stephanie Johnson on definitions and disguises, and the risks of writing under a pseudonym.

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?