A conversation with Emily Perkins the morning after winning big at the OckhamsThe biggest winner from the 2024 Ockham book awards talks about the stages of life, advocating for the arts, and what's next.By Madeleine Chapman | 16th May, 2024Editor
Emily Perkins takes home top prize for fiction at Ockham book awardsAll the big winners from the big night for authors.By Claire Mabey | 15th May, 2024
‘One hell of a lesson’: a conversation with Ngāhuia Te AwekōtukuThe activist and scholar's new memoir offers a mind-altering, life-affirming dose of mātauranga.By Matariki Williams | 15th May, 2024
'I thought we'd wear Zoolander outfits': Pip Adam and Emily Perkins on the OckhamsTwo of this year's fiction nominees discuss awards, writing, review culture, Selling Sunset, Zoolander and more.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 14th May, 2024
‘Mothering looked beautiful but also chaotic and stifling’: On flatting with a newborn'It wasn’t just the baby that made our flat different. Nothing we did was subtle or coincidental.'By Lily Duval | 11th May, 2024
Motherhood: A reading journeyA selection of books that traverse the delight, anger and boredom of motherhood.By Ella Borrie | 11th May, 2024Guest writer
Tracing four decades of Wellington street art'I think it’s quite important that graffiti is recorded. It captures the moment.'By Joel MacManus | 11th May, 2024Wellington editor
The Friday Poem: ‘High Tide at Local Maxima’ by Eamonn TeeA new poem by Auckland poet Eamonn Tee.By Eamonn Tee | 10th May, 2024Guest writer
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 10Two new books from local poets rocket onto the charts. By The Spinoff Review of Books | 10th May, 2024⚖️
Two senior publishers axed at Penguin Random House amid major restructureNew Zealand's largest book publisher has undergone drastic changes this week, leaving its future role in local publishing uncertain.By Madeleine Chapman | 10th May, 2024Editor
What actually are the Ockhams?Who's eligible? How does judging work? And how do authors really feel about them?By Rebecca K Reilly | 10th May, 2024Guest writer
‘I do love a good funnysad novel’: Jane Arthur on her favourite booksThe writer and bookseller on an encounter with CK Stead, the ever-changing brilliance of Charlotte's Web and more.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 8th May, 2024⚖️
‘Uncanny notes that plague this place’: Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson, reviewedAn ode to The Wicker Man with plenty of twists.By Claire Mabey | 7th May, 2024Books editor
Dunedin’s secondhand bookshops, ranked and reviewedThe best places in Ōtepoti to pick up everything from medical romance novels to rare first edition hardbacks.By Hera Lindsay Bird | 4th May, 2024Contributing writer
The Sunday Essay: The books that electrify and consume youI didn’t know books could open you back up; that reading could be a chemical event. I knew nothing.By James Pasley | 4th May, 2024Guest writer
The Friday Poem: ‘Mātou’ by Tessa KeenanA poem by Tessa Keenan, from AUP New Poets 10.By Tessa Keenan | 3rd May, 2024Guest writer
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 3Wellington street art, the story of a spy, the joys of foraging and more.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 3rd May, 2024⚖️
‘There was life in the old girl yet’: Dame Susan Devoy on taking reality TV by storm'Some of the comments that came out of my mouth left me gobsmacked.'By Susan Devoy | 3rd May, 2024Guest writer
‘There is some properly foul content in this book’: What a bookseller readsThe bookseller confessional delves into unusual requests, books not to read on a full stomach and more.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 1st May, 2024⚖️
‘When the ship docks’: Publishing the poetry of the late Schaeffer LemaluAn insight into the privilege and challenges of posthumous publishing.By Chris Holdaway | 30th April, 2024Guest writer