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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Whereabouts of Sinbad’s Isle

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Jack Ross on Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker

Filed Under: history, reviews and essays

Writing Decolonisation, Rewriting Sovereignty

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville; Imagining Decolonisation by Bianca Elkington et al.

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific, reviews and essays

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

I Am Here

1 February 2022 Leave a Comment

Shana Chandra on Times Like These by Michelle Langstone; The Commercial Hotel by John Summers

Filed Under: memoir, reviews and essays, social sciences

Artist-Writers Gift Their Sight

1 December 2021 Leave a Comment

Angela Trolove on A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water by Hana Pera Aoake; Piripai by Leila Lees; Party Legend by Sam Duckor-Jones

Filed Under: fiction, reviews and essays

Cartography for the Soul

1 May 2021 Leave a Comment

Tim Saunders on Map for the Heart by Jillian Sullivan

Filed Under: environment, memoir, poetry, reviews and essays

He Whakarite Ataahua/A Beautiful Arrangement

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole on Ko Aotearoa Tātou, eds Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe and David Eggleton

Filed Under: art and photography, fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, short stories

The Irreducible Self

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on Specimen by Madison Hamill

Filed Under: gender identity, reviews and essays

Hear Our Voices

1 March 2020 Leave a Comment

Giovanni Tiso on The Broken Estate by Mel Bunce; Student Political Action in New Zealand by Sylvia Nissen

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

Twinned Roots

1 February 2020 Leave a Comment

Nina Mingya Powles on All Who Live on Islands by Rose Lu

Filed Under: reviews and essays

Witness Marks

1 August 2019 Leave a Comment

Jodie Dalgleish on Kaitiaki o te Pō by John-Paul Powley

Filed Under: reviews and essays, social sciences

The Grit that Makes the Pearl 

1 May 2019 Leave a Comment

Tasha Haines on The Writing Life by Deborah Shepard

Filed Under: arts and culture, literature, reviews and essays

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