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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

What Kind of Society Are We Trying to Build?

10 June 2026 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean reviews Edges of Empire: The politics of immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020 by Francis L. Collins, Alan Gamlen and Neil Vallelly

Filed Under: history, politics

Looking Out for Others

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre

Filed Under: history, politics

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

Looking in the Wrong Direction

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Victor Billot on The Enemy Within: The human cost of state surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Maire Leadbeater

Filed Under: history, politics

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

John Mulgan’s War in the Shadows

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

Giovanni Tiso on John Mulgan and the Greek Left: A regrettably intimate acquaintance by C.-Dimitris Gounelas and Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

Filed Under: history, politics

Fighting for God, King and Country

1 March 2024 Leave a Comment

Nicholas Reid on Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899–1902 on New Zealand by Nigel Robson; I Don’t Believe In Murder: Standing up for peace in World War 1 Canterbury by Margaret Lovell-Smith; Defending Trinity College, Easter 1916: Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman; Who Disturbs the Kukupa? by Kayleen Hazlehurst

Filed Under: fiction, history, politics, social sciences

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

Someone to Love, Somewhere to Live, Somewhere to Work, Something to Hope For

1 December 2023 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on We Need to Talk About Norman: New Zealand’s lost leader by Denis Welch

Filed Under: biography, politics

Owning Nothing

2 October 2023 Leave a Comment

Denys Trussell Love & Money: The writer’s cut by Greg McGee

Filed Under: fiction, politics

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

The Enchantments of Uncertainty

1 February 2022 1 Comment

Emma Gattey on Tranquillity and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan; Love America by Jenny Robin Jones

Filed Under: history, politics, reviews and essays, social sciences

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