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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Moral Covenant

5 May 2026 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking reviews The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 by Erik Olssen

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

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

The Price of Citizenship

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White reviews Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War by Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie, Lachy Paterson, Ross Webb and Erica Newman

Filed Under: history, 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

Their Souls Will Be Captured by Another Atua

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary on Kāwai: Tree of nourishment by Monty Soutar

Filed Under: fiction, maori and pacific

My Kōrero Will Go Viral

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Ash Davida Jane on All That We Know by Shilo Kino

Filed Under: fiction, maori and pacific

Villages of Grandmothers

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau

Filed Under: maori and pacific, poetry, queer writing

The Young Kamp Girls Meet Up at the Casa D’Oro

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Hine Toa: A story of bravery by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku

Filed Under: maori and pacific, memoir, politics, queer writing

A Space to Operate If You Were a Woman Artist

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Folded in the hills by Marilynn Webb

Filed Under: art and photography, maori and pacific

Aliens in Their Swanky Robes

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary on Turncoat by Tīhema Baker

Filed Under: maori and pacific, sci fi fantasy

I Feel My Whakapapa Hum in My Bones

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Vaughan Rapatahana on Neither by Liam Jacobson, Birdspeak by Arihia Latham and Hopurangi/Songcatcher by Robert Sullivan

Filed Under: maori and pacific, poetry

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