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Baxter, redux: Second thoughts on Jacquie Sturm and her lousy husband
Two scholars respond to our recent series on James K Baxter, and his wife, Jacquie Sturm.
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Two scholars respond to our recent series on James K Baxter, and his wife, Jacquie Sturm.
Ashleigh Young talks about her feelings as she steps into her new role as poetry editor at The Spinoff Review of Books.
Madeleine Chapman co-wrote basketball star Steven Adams' autobiography. She tells how she wrote the book alongside an athlete she's known since they were both teenagers.
We asked former All Black great Bob Burgess to review a new book on his team-mate Keith Murdoch. But then we changed our mind, and asked his wife Linda Burgess to write whatever she wanted about rugby.
The top ten best-sellers of 2018 at the Unity store in High St, Auckland
All week this week we present the 20 best books of the year. Today: the 20 best books of non-fiction.
All week this week The Spinoff Review of Books presents the best books of the year. Today: the best 20 books for kids.
An essay by Sarah Forster from Booksellers New Zealand about the threat that Amazon-owned Book Depository pose to bookstores - and, ultimately, readers.
The Monday Extract: "Stevie", who works in the sex industry as a self-described "trans boy", talks to social historian Caren Wilton.
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.
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.
Some people simply love to compete. Madeleine Chapman writes in defence of competitiveness.
The Monday Extract: A harrowing personal essay by Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman from his new memoir.
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.
A semi-fictional memoir by Jackson C. Payne, son of the late Bill Payne, ex-con, winner of the 1993 Sargeson Literary Fellowship, author of a classic book about New Zealand gangs, and writer in residence at the Alhambra in Three Lamps.
