‘Makes me feel better about humanity’: Hannah Tunnicliffe’s favourite writer'I will be reading anything he writes until he stops doing so.'By The Spinoff Review of Books | 16th April, 2025⚖️
Can books change the world? A writer makes the case'When I was 12, I started writing a Percy Jackson-esque adventure novel. My protagonist a white boy – I didn’t realise that Asian girls could be protagonists.'By Emma Sidnam | 12th April, 2025
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 11The Bookshop Detectives are back!By The Spinoff Review of Books | 11th April, 2025
All of Jane Austen’s novels ranked from worst to bestWhich beloved novel is most deserving of the number one spot on our dance cards?By Hannah August | 11th April, 2025
The dystopian nonfiction I didn’t intend to writeIt's 13 years since I started writing Truth Needs No Colour, but its themes feel more relevant than ever today. By Heather McQuillan | 10th April, 2025
Words to live by: Kimberly Andrews’ books confessional'I reference it regularly, and am constantly recommending it' – the illustrator and author on a book that changed her approach to life.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 9th April, 2025⚖️
‘The trail was haunting me’: Northbound by Naomi Arnold, reviewedA rollicking account of walking the length of New Zealand solo.By Liv Sisson | 8th April, 2025Commercial editor
Windbag: Could this book be the new Green manifesto for Wellington?It sets out a new framework for how Wellington can address a trio of socio-ecological crises. But what’s missing?By Joel MacManus | 8th April, 2025Wellington editor
What happened to my friend Dr Tariq Habibyar'As a policy setting it chafes; as something that happens to a close friend it is infuriating.'By Murdoch Stephens | 5th April, 2025Guest writer
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 4Homegrown crime, dystopia and an essential book about the judicial system.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 4th April, 2025⚖️
What happens to taonga Māori in the age of AI?Experts explain how copyright and intellectual property frameworks are inadequate protections for taonga Māori.By Claire Mabey | 3rd April, 2025Books editor
‘People absolutely hate me’: Rachel Paris on her dream run as a debut novelist'What I’ve learned is that with publishing there’s so much about luck and being in the right place at the right time.'By Claire Mabey | 2nd April, 2025Books editor
Should Shakespeare be compulsory? A student’s perspectiveA Shakespeare-loving secondary school student debates the pros and cons.By JJ Mathias | 2nd April, 2025Guest writer
Who gets to embrace ‘abundance’ in New Zealand politics?The left may have a lot to answer for when it comes to making things hard to build, but many on the right seem plenty attached to the status quo of scarcity.By Henry Cooke | 2nd April, 2025Contributing writer
‘Gripping, revelatory, generous and layered’: No Words for This by Ali Mau, reviewedA conversation about Ali Mau's deeply affecting memoir.By Claire MabeyBooks editor & Alex Casey | 1st April, 2025Senior writer
‘Not like the rest of New Zealand’: reviving ta rē Moriori on RēkohuHow awakening traditional practices is restoring Rēkohu now and for the future.By Jessica HutchingsGuest writer & Jo Smith | 31st March, 2025Guest writer
‘Cattleman, Fashion Fancier’: Central Otago Couture, reviewedA stunning new book explores the life of high country farmer Eden Hore, and his unrivalled fashion collection.By Jessie Bray Sharpin | 29th March, 2025Guest writer
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending March 28Poetry, post-apocalypse, and Panem.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 28th March, 2025⚖️
Out of the internet and into the page: books for teenage boysWhat’s the state of teen reading in Aotearoa? And what are the book that might lure our boys out the wilds of the internet and back to the page?By Claire Mabey | 28th March, 2025Books editor
‘Maybe a bored kid made it up?’ The mystery of Mairātea Mohi’s favourite childhood book'I can’t find it anywhere. No library, no secondhand shop, no Google search turns it up.'By The Spinoff Review of Books | 26th March, 2025⚖️
