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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Kōrero Each to Each

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana

Filed Under: anthology, essays, short stories, social sciences

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

Riddled with Phantoms and Skeletons

1 July 2024 1 Comment

Rowan Light on The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw

Filed Under: history, social sciences

This is Just the Body I Brought with Me

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Francis Cooke on Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger

Filed Under: essays, memoir, queer writing, social sciences

Sensible Sentencing

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Blood and Dirt: Prison labour and the making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson

Filed Under: history, social sciences

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

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

The Tilted Playing Field

1 May 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi and Anisha Sankar

Filed Under: essays, maori and pacific, social sciences

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

Revolution Matters

1 October 2022 1 Comment

Philip Matthews on Jumping Sundays: The rise and fall of the counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger

Filed Under: history, social sciences

To Re-remember and Re-learn

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.

Filed Under: art and photography, environment, memoir, natural history, social sciences

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