Told largely in verbatim dialogue, this up-close and personal account brings the realities of the New Zealand criminal justice system to life through the voices of those who experience it first-hand.

Over 100 years after Pō Atarau was popularised, it’s on the soundtrack of Ryan Gosling’s blockbuster Project Hail Mary. But who was the remarkable woman behind it?

View current vacancies for tutor positions at the School of Arts and Media.

Exploring eighteenth-century connections in today’s world.

Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.

Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.

Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.

'Would you want General Tilney to be your daddy?'

As we get into spring, look back at poet Anna Jackson’s winter reading list.

Thursday September 18th, 6pmIn-store at Unity Books WELLINGTONBook Launch: South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Charles Ferrall

Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.

Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.

We're delighted to host the launch of Anna Jackson's new book, Terrier, Worrier, published by Auckland University Press.

What can make itself at home in the house of fiction? Houses, being at home, and neighbours all matter in Tina Makereti’s acclaimed 2024 novel, The Mires. Described by Shankari Chandran as a …

The writer and professor shares some of his favourite books – and the one he'd purge from his memory if he could.

Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougall McNeill. OUP (2024). RRP: $45. PB, 248pp. ISBN: 9781990048760. Reviewed by Dani Yourukova. Lately, it seems like ev...

Kaupapa Māori scholar Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tarāwhai, Te Arawa, Ngāti Uenukukōpako) has been appointed as Te Herenga Wa...

Witnessing, reading through this absorbing, elegant, careful example of the art, is always a kind of mourning, and Conrad, an author for whom writing was “the conversion of nervous force into phrases,...

Part of our 2024 open day. This event will include readings from At the Bay | I Te Kokoru 2024 authors and books published this year. The winners of the 2024 Sparkling Prose competition, with the them...

Wellington is at the heart of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It is also an essential ingredient in the success of A-league football team the Wellington Phoenix.

Forms of Freedom argues for the right to have time to devote to being enchanted by books.