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Read “What’s with Baum?” without knowing who wrote it and you might think it’s a “straightforwardly unremarkable” novel…

The excitement was unmistakable as Eastmont Middle’s Team Peeta finished each other’s sentences and laughed over their favorite…

Adolf Hitler’s defeat didn’t end prejudice against Jews in Germany or any other country. But the Third Reich did,…

This week’s lineup of new books boasts a couple of headliners in Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood. Whatever…

The Booker prize jury chair has bemoaned the quality of many entrants for the annual literary award, saying…

Maybe this goes against our self interest, but we think you should take a break from reading the…

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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has said she and the other judges of this year’s Booker Prize had “real…

Is it an Oppenheimer world? Palantir Technologies co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp and Palantir Head of Corporate Affairs…

‘Flashlight’ by Susan Choi Choi followed up Trust Exercise, from 2019, with another novel that asks readers to…

Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets (Bantam) has slipped to second place in the Official UK Top 50, allowing…

Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers,…

Would Woody Allen’s ‘wince-inducing’ first novel be better as a film?