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Christmas shopping guide: the 20 best kids books of 2018
All week this week The Spinoff Review of Books presents the best books of the year. Today: the best 20 books for kids.
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All week this week The Spinoff Review of Books presents the best books of the year. Today: the best 20 books for kids.
A round-up of 20 best-sellers this Christmas – featuring the world's first ever recorded use of emoji reviews.
Steve Braunias reviews the new autobiography by Roger Daltrey, singer with one of the best and worst groups of all times, The Who.
The Monday Extract: Wellington writer John-Paul Powley pulls together Parihaka, imperialism, capitalism, and catered lunches at education conferences in a searching essay on Māori achievement.
New verse by Pt Chevalier writer Jenny Blood.
Only 39 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
Book of the Week: In which Spinoff Review of Books literary editor Steve Braunias commissions Murray Edmond to review an anthology of New Zealand poetry published by Steve Braunias.
Auckland writer Kirsten Warner on the continuing horror of the Holocaust for second generation survivors.
Author Bruce Ansley follows in the footsteps of Te Puoho, who set off on an epic, 1500-kilometre march with his war party in 1836, intent on destroying an entire people - Ngai Tahu.
The Monday Extract: A harrowing personal essay by Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman from his new memoir.
Only 39 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland.
New verse by Dunedin writer Vincent O'Sullivan.
Book of the Week: Jane Westaway reviews Colin Hogg's portrait of poet Sam Hunt.
Spinoff Review of Books literary editor Steve Braunias heads out to New Lynn to ponder two new books on His Holiness of the Church of Enduring Beatlemania, John Lennon.
Spinoff Review of Books literary editor Steve Braunias does his best to remember a drunken weekend in Wellington at 2018 LitCrawl.
The Monday Extract: Christchurch coroner Marcus Elliott writes a personal essay about death, grief, and mercy in a new book about dying in New Zealand.
New verse by Kirikiriroa writer essa may ranapiri.
