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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Global Domination of Māori Art History

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

Filed Under: arts and culture, maori and pacific

Story Sovereignty

1 October 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Books of Mana: 180 Māori-authored books of significance edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira

Filed Under: arts and culture, essays, literature, maori and pacific

Our Position Is In the Highest Degree Tragic

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Forms of Freedom: Marxist essays in New Zealand and Australian literature by Dougal McNeill

Filed Under: arts and culture, essays, literature, politics, social sciences

Your Position Is Not Mine

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Ian Wedde on Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The selected letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly by Peter Simpson

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history, letters

Action Stations

1 March 2024 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Jerram ; Fierce Hope: Youth activism in Aotearoa by Karen Nairn, Judith Sligo, Carisa R. Showden, Kyle R. Matthews and Joanna Kidman ; Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve stories of learning in community edited by Balamohan Shingade and Erena Shingade

Filed Under: arts and culture, essays, politics, social sciences

A Riotous Profusion

1 February 2024 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Jenny McLeod: A life in music by Norman Meehan

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography

He Put His Chisel Right Through It

1 December 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri; Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, maori and pacific

Stone House & Straw Houses  

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell (Canterbury University Press, 2022) and Road People of Aotearoa: House truck journeys 1978–1984 by Paul Gilbert (Rim Books, 2021)

Filed Under: architecture, art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history

The Decade That Never Dies

1 December 2021 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Time to Make a Song and Dance by Murray Edmond

Filed Under: arts and culture, history

History So Close It Wounds 

1 October 2021 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Te Papa to Berlin by Ken Gorbey

Filed Under: arts and culture, memoir

Paradoxes, Mysteries and Obsessions

1 September 2021 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Ralph Hotere by Vincent O’Sullivan

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

In the Footsteps of Robin Hyde

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Shining Land by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography, literature

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