Jeffrey Holman on Ngā Kupu Wero edited by Witi Ihimaera with an introduction by Jacinta Ruru
Nothing Inside But Stars
Rachel Smith on A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Grenades Shaped Like Cans of Coke
Andrew Paul Wood on Ithaca by Alie Benge.
The Tilted Playing Field
David Eggleton on Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi and Anisha Sankar
Difficult Histories
Emma Gattey on Kārearea by Māmari Stephens and Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, denial and New Zealand history by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O’Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
Writing Ourselves into Existence
Laura Toailoa on Sweat and Salt Water: Selected works by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa edited and compiled by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson and Terence Wesley-Smith
Listening to Our Elders
Gina Cole on Haare Williams: Words of a kaumātua by Haare Williams; Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees edited by Susette Goldsmith
A Principled Resistance
Erik Kennedy on The Other Way by David Trubridge