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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

A Brilliant Stick With Which to Beat the Old Guard

1 February 2026 1 Comment

Ian Wedde reviews Out of the Blue: Essays on artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 by Christina Barton

Filed Under: art and photography, essays

Kōrero Each to Each

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana

Filed Under: anthology, essays, short stories, social sciences

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

I Run My Fingers Over the Hem of a T-shirt in Kmart

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole reviews Slowing the Sun: Essays by Nadine Hura

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, essays, maori and pacific

Better than Real

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand by Matt Vance

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, essays, memoir

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

Carnivalesque Biology

1 February 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on The Social Space of the Essay 2003–2023 by Ian Wedde

Filed Under: essays

A Weaver’s Warp and Weft

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Francis Cooke on Bad Archive by Flora Feltham

Filed Under: essays

Catching Fire

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais

Filed Under: essays, literature, short stories

This is Just the Body I Brought with Me

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Francis Cooke on Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger

Filed Under: essays, memoir, queer writing, social sciences

Exchanging Wisdoms

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking on Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020by Anne Salmond

Filed Under: essays, history, maori and pacific

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

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