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A reckoning on Rabbit Island
Wellington writer Nick Ascroft celebrates his 50th birthday today with thoughts of existential dread
Jan’s affair with Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
A memoir of an illicit romance on the most famous poetry tour ever staged in New Zealand
An Ode to .. Lord Winston
Bard Billot on the Duke of Hazard
Short Story: Sumatran cannabis
A fantasy about stoned sex and the search for the Holy Grail
The meaning of rugby league
A brilliant new social history of the people’s game
The poet who got punched in the back of the head
Dominic Hoey hits the road to bring poetry to the people
Crime wave in Ōtautahi
Steve Braunias, Charity Norman and Michael Bennett win Ngaio Marsh crime writing awards
Award-winning author and writer Steve Braunias brings you the best literary coverage in NZ every Saturday.
PORTRAITS
Kevin, edging 90
A portrait of the artist by the artist's wife
Portrait: Gloria of Greymouth
The creation diary of a most extraordinary dwelling
Noelle, the interview
An interview with the author of the best book of the year thus far
Portrait: Brian Turner
Jillian Sullivan on her partner, the legendary Brian Turner, living with Alzheimer's in Oturehua
Short story: Cats at the Fire Front, by Laura Jean McKay
The first of four consecutive weekly short stories about cats
Short story: Moonfish, by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
This week's Short Story – "You could have drowned her": at the lake
Short story: Malolactic, by Shelley Burne-Field
"They want the Māoris out": provincial life in NZ.
Short story: Rust, by Isabel Haarhaus
Raglan's Soundsplash festival is this weekend…
NEWS
The return of James Belich
A legendary Kiwi historian is shortlisted for a major prize
Men: the comeback
Ockham longlist announced
Dunedin's cat lady
On the first major survey of a coveted artist.
Ka pai: the 2022 ReadingRoom literary awards
ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias celebrates the best things in New Zealand writing this year
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Winner of the Sargeson Prize schools division
A Nigerian girl and her Pākehā boyfriend at a swimming pool
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