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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Many In that Blue Room Believed, Heart and Soul

1 February 2024 Leave a Comment

Jack Ross on Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood

Filed Under: history, social sciences

How Perfectly Delicious!

1 February 2024 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Selling Britishness: Commodity culture, the Dominions and Empire by Felicity Barnes and Sure to Rise: The Edmonds story by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson and Richard Wolfe

Filed Under: history

Refugees in Time of War

2 October 2023 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on A Message for Nasty by Roderick Fry

Filed Under: fiction, history

Neither Just Nor Fair

1 September 2023 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking on The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era 1891–1912 by Danny Keenan

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

The Past Is Never Dead

1 August 2023 Leave a Comment

Victor Billot on Histories of Hate: The radical right in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley.

Filed Under: history

Enlightening People Who Have Been Fed False Stories

1 July 2023 Leave a Comment

Nicholas Reid on A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips

Filed Under: history

Women Active at Every Level of Photography

1 July 2023 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Though Shaded Glass: Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960 by Lissa Mitchell

Filed Under: art and photography, history

A Trojan Horse

1 June 2023 Leave a Comment

Paerau Warbrick on The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangiby Ned Fletcher

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

Challenging Racism, Imperialism, Exploitation

1 April 2023 Leave a Comment

Philip Temple on Comrade: Bill Andersen: A communist, working-class life by Cybèle Locke

Filed Under: biography, history, politics

Difficult Histories

1 April 2023 Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: essays, history, social sciences

We Were the Wall of a Pātaka

1 March 2023 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

No Turning Back

1 March 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Culture in a Small Country: The arts in New Zealand and A Book of Seeing by Roger Horrocks

Filed Under: history

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