Review: a rare memoir about being fat that doesn’t end in weight loss
Charlotte Graham reviews the 'horrifying' new memoir by Roxane Gay.
Books
The Friday Poem by Hera Lindsay Bird
New verse inasmuch it's previously unpublished, but really it's old verse cos it was written ages ago, by Wellington writer Hera Lindsay Bird.
The Unity Books best-seller chart for the week ending July 21
The best-selling books at the two best bookstores in the galaxy.
Book of the Week: Imagining a future where women are the oppressors
Andra Jenkin reviews The Power, a wildly successful feminist sci-fi novel which imagines a world where women are in control.
We cross live to Taumarunui and search for signs of literature
In the second of our occasional series of reports of literary activity in provincial towns, Taumaranui writer Antony Millen - a runner-up in last year's Surrey Hotel writers residency award - describes what goes on in the King Country.
Announcing the shortlist of the 2017 Surrey Hotel writers residency award
We received close to 100 entries for the coolest writers residency award in New Zealand. Today, right now, we name the 10 writers who have made the shortlist.
The Friday Poem: four lines on Bob Dylan
New verse by Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
The Unity Books best-seller chart for the week ending July 14
The best-selling books at the two best bookstores in the galaxy.
Book of the week: a guide to the hot pools of New Zealand
You need this book in your life, right now, this instant. Steve Braunias recommends a New Zealand classic.
Arundhati Roy and the misery of that difficult second novel
Marion McLeod is baffled and somewhat bored to sobs by the eagerly awaited second novel by Indian superstar novelist Arundhati Roy.
