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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

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

Stories to Outlive Us

1 July 2021 Leave a Comment

Emma Espiner on Ngā Kete Mātauranga by Jacinta Ruru & Linda Waimarie Nikora (eds)

Filed Under: maori and pacific, politics, social sciences

‘The worst thing you can ever do’

1 July 2021 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins

Filed Under: memoir, social sciences

A Little Bridge 

1 November 2020 Leave a Comment

Breton Dukes on The Stories of Eileen Duggan edited by Helen J. O’Neill

Filed Under: fiction, social sciences

A Robot Stole My Economy

1 September 2020 Leave a Comment

Victor Billot on Jobs, Robots and Us by Kinley Salmon

Filed Under: history, politics, social sciences

He kura kāinga e hokia: he kura tangata e kore e hokia. The treasure of land will persist: human possessions will not

1 June 2020 Leave a Comment

Gerry Te Kapa Coates on Rebuilding the Kāinga by Jade Kake and #NoFly by Shaun Hendy

Filed Under: journalism, maori and pacific, politics, social sciences

#I am not a virus

1 May 2020 Leave a Comment

Mira Harrison on The Dark Island by Benjamin Kingsbury

Filed Under: history, social sciences

Mate atu he toa, ara mai ra he toa! When one warrior dies, another arises to take his place!

1 April 2020 Leave a Comment

Vaughan Rapatahana on Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E! by Monty Soutar

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific, politics, social sciences

Quite a Ride

1 March 2020 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Making History by Jock Phillips

Filed Under: arts and culture, history, memoir, social sciences

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

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

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