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An introvert’s ultimate birthday party: 24 hours alone in Invercargill
George Driver heads to the end of the Earth to spend his birthday alone in Invercargill.
George Driver heads to the end of the Earth to spend his birthday alone in Invercargill.
Healthcare organisations need to realise that climate change and wellbeing are intertwined – and that what's good for the environment is always good for health.
Lil O'Brien grew up having to read between the lines to find girls like her. Girls who liked girls, that is.
Novelist Chloe Lane talks to artist Nicola Farquhar about guts and hats, and her fondness for ruining things.
Physical isolation may be the way to eliminate Covid-19, but it could come at a high cost to mental health.
A new essay by Linda Burgess.
Two scholars respond to our recent series on James K Baxter, and his wife, 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.
An essay by James K Baxter's great-grandson Jack McDonald about his Nana, Baxter's wife, the author and Māori leader Jacqui Sturm.
All week this week the Spinoff Review of Books revisits the great poet James K Baxter, on the occasion of a new book of letters. Today: CK Stead remembers Baxter, in this extract taken from his memoir in progress, South-East of Everywhere.
All week this week we revisit the great poet James K Baxter on the occasion of a new book of letters. Today: a selection of the letters written in 1969.
Morgan Godfery wonders exactly what the point is of New Zealand bowing to a monarch "of a rain-soaked island off the north-western coast of the European mainland".
The full list, with mild critique, of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist.
Cat Connor of the Writers Plot Bookshop in Upper Hutt backgrounds the birth and development of New Zealand's only bookstore devoted exclusively to Kiwi authors.
An essay in praise of Amazon by Kirsty Wright, a Southland erotic romance author who is 'killing it' thanks to sales generated by the online empire.
Catherine Robertson's latest novel What You Wish For has raced to the top of the best-seller charts – but what she really, really wants is to win a prize for being funny.
