Everyone heads to the internet to dispel loneliness and boredom. Sharon Lam headed there in search of lonely Asian women, and found them everywhere she looked.
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
Richard von Sturmer reviews the new novel by Wellington author Carl Shuker - a tense, razor-sharp story of a surgeon who makes a fatal mistake.
The clock has struck 5:00am – meaning the embargo on the 2019 Ockham New Zealand national book awards has been lifted, and the dear old Spinoff Review of Books is first in with the full list of who has made it.
The poet Hera Lindsay Bird interviews the brilliant American writer Mark Leidner, and does her best to explain why he's her favourite writer of all time.
The Monday Extract: John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds join forces to present a handsome new book about some structures in Auckland.
New poetry by Semira Davis.
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
Anthony Byrt reviews an impeccably researched but somewhat tortured biography of Theo Schoon - only possibly a great New Zealand artist, almost certainly an anti-Semitic, misogynist, pretentious, belly-aching bitch.
Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
Two scholars respond to our recent series on James K Baxter, and his wife, Jacquie Sturm.
Steve Braunias farewells Peter Wells.
An excerpt from David Cohen's Book of Cohen, featuring Steve Braunias and musings on erotic salvation.
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 best-seller list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland.
Following last week's revelations about James K Baxter, poetry editor Ashleigh Young presents a poem by Baxter's wife, the late Jacquie Sturm.
John Summers is inspired by a dreamer who ended up living as a kind of Robinson Crusoe on a Cook Islands atoll 'where there truly was no sound beyond the waves, the birds and whatever noise you made yourself'.
A new book by Tony McCaffrey deals with stage performances by people who have intellectual disabilities.
