20th September, 2018Book of the Week: the new JK Rowling is up there with Harry PotterCharlotte Graham-McLay is dazzled by the new novel by JK Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith), which arrived in shops this week.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
28th June, 2018The feminist manifesto that isn’t, thank God, a feminist manifesto"I am wary of reading any more feminist manifestos these days because they are very exhausting," writes Charlotte Graham-McLay, in her review of a new memoir hailed as a feminist manifesto but it isn't, really.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
20th June, 2018Inside the Surrey Hotel: less than 24 hours to meet the deadline for New Zealand’s finest writers residency awardAs the deadline looms for the 2018 Surrey Hotel writers residency award, 2017 winner Charlotte Graham-McLay files a report on her experience at the Surrey. She danced a lot.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
8th May, 2018But where was the roar? Watching the Hillary Clinton show in AucklandThere was no sign of the promise she'd 'let her guard down', and flashes of Sarcastic Wine Mom aside, Hillary Clinton offered little more than platitudes at Spark Arena.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
12th April, 2018Book of the Week: Charlotte Grimshaw’s new masterly novel"Tyrants around the dinner table, fake news inside our heads": Charlotte Graham-McLay celebrates the new novel by Auckland writer Charlotte Grimshaw.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
7th March, 2018Novelist Charlotte Wood: ‘The female body seems to provoke this bizarre hatred’Charlotte Graham-McLay interviews acclaimed Australian author Charlotte Wood - who is appearing at the New Zealand Festival this weekend - about sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and 'angry women'.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
6th September, 2017‘Why do I have to put up with this shit?’ Women journalists in NZ share their stories of online abuseAs newsrooms push for their reporters and audiences to engage with each other on digital platforms, some women journalists say gendered harassment and abuse from media consumers has become an exhausting, and accepted, part of the job. Charlotte Graham investigates.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
19th July, 2017Review: a rare memoir about being fat that doesn’t end in weight lossCharlotte Graham reviews the 'horrifying' new memoir by Roxane Gay.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
11th May, 2017Auckland Writers Festival: Charlotte Graham interviews feminist author Susan FaludiThe best coverage of the Auckland Writers Festival continues right here, as the Spinoff Review of Books devotes the entire week to long, intelligent encounters with guest writers. Today: Charlotte Graham talks with Susan Faludi, author of the classic 1991 book Backlash.By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer
30th April, 2017What Broadchurch got right (and then very wrong) about rapeCharlotte Graham applauds how Broadchurch handled sexual violence with a nuance seldom seen on television. That is, of course, until it shat the bed. By Charlotte Graham-McLayGuest writer