Delighted to see Wellington's number one this week – it's been on the charts since March, just about, and is finally sitting pretty.
A plea for information about one of our pioneer feminists, who secretly wrote pamphlets and articles arguing for equality in the law.
Owen Marshall writes about 40 years of friendship with Brian Turner and Grahame Sydney.
We're in for a dreadfully hot and sticky summer – and that's just the start.
Having started the pandemic storyline, God, or perhaps the scriptwriters working on the world’s stories, have lost the plot.
Why we still need novels about the Nazis.
Sure, you could go and play outside. Or you could snuggle up with a stack of books.
Weird old list this week, featuring Sally Rooney (once), K-pop (once), and moles (twice).
A new poem from Auckland poet Lily Holloway.
A writer imagines what life – and the planet – is like many decades down the track.
Bearing witness to the end of the world – or at least the end of the one we know.
How one book became the template for 30 years of writing for children and young adults.
'I am a very emotional person, and I cry all the time! That community made me keep going.'
A poem by Ockham Award-winning novelist Becky Manawatu.
Go on, dip your toes in.
Witi Ihimaera argues that the atua who killed Māui had her reasons – and it's time to forgive her.
Sometimes being Māori feels like you’re on the sideline watching, and then someone chucks you the ball and you want to play along but you don’t really know the rules.
A new poem from poet and teacher Rhys Feeney.
The best reads of the week are all in here, waiting.
Te Papa's natural history collection, photographed by a living legend.
This festive season we've got some extra-fun shipping logjams to deal with.
Bernard Beckett is second-guessing himself, again.
Victory Park is the first novel from Mākaro Press since August 2019, when they put out a little book called Auē.
A new poem by Wellington poet Anahera Gildea.