We’re at that point of the year when you can’t tell what day of the week it is anymore

Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer

Using the Sterling Arms XLCR as an illustrative example, I discuss the web of money and guns that the UAE operates to fuel the RSF's activities in Sudan, where it has been credibly accused of committing genocide. Until something is done about this, the killing will only continue.

This has been one of the silliest alpha test matches I’ve ever seen, but Australia will end up out alpha-ing England, as per usual

On leave today to decompress after a pretty gruelling marking season; let's do something inconsequential and fun. 1 like = 1 book from my bookshelves and 300 characters worth of comment on it. Until I get bored.

21) Brannavan Gnanalingam: The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat. I've known Bran for 20 years; I own pretty much all his novels because they're pretty much all great. This one is, amongst other things, a spiky exploration of the fact that terrible politics isn't limited to white people.

Dublin Literary Award nominated titles are out! Kia ora to the writers from Aotearoa New Zealand on this list: 📗1985 by Dominic Hoey 📕Delirious by Damien Wilkins 📘Kataraina by Becky Manawatu and - our pick - 📙The Mires by Tina Makereti. dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new... #Booksky #ReadNZ ^DR

PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news

“During the late months of 2024, it was becoming readily clear to some of us that Gaza existed on two incommensurable planes: one which was transmitted in Arabic and the other in English.” An introduction to OF WEAPONS AND WORDS, and to the vital task of translating militant writings on Palestine.

I must confess I had no idea about cli-fi when I wrote Sodden Downstream in 2017, but I’ll take the shoutout! thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-...

Whitcoulls don't stock my book so it has been banned and I am a victim of censorship.

This place fucking rules

terrific virtual cafe reading for the weekend nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/14/p...

Tonight I was delighted to attend the launch of @jackremiel.bsky.social 's second collection of short fiction, The Emotion Dealer & Other Stories. I've already started snacking on these tasty bites! So pleasing and yet tantalizing! What next to find?

Launch tonight! If you're free in Wellington from about 6:00pm this evening come along and check out my new book. There's free drinks (quality not guaranteed) and @brannavan.bsky.social will be speaking (quality guaranteed) if you need enticing. www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

RIP Peter Watkins, an underseen master (following the BBC’s half-witted panic over The War Game). He was a brilliant and provocative director

NZer in the news! Putting aside the terribleness of it all, it’s also objectively funny that a journo got sucked in by a Bill de Blasio impersonator for a Times article

I released The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat this time last year. I’m super proud of the book & genuinely think it has captured the zeitgeist. The circumstances of the book have become more and more relevant as the viciousness of this era reveals itself. Anyway, here’s a review that nailed it

Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

Huge thanks to @murdochstephens and @brannavan_g from Lawrence & Gibson for coming in to speak to us – so interesting to hear about the publishing process from a publishing collective's perspective. And this newspaper is now the coolest book that we own! 👑🐀🏡

Better Wellington everyone

Ultra long sentences and gloomy existentialism, two of my favourite things, ftw!!

It baffles me that centrist politicians over the last couple of years can’t figure out is that if you refuse to stand up against something so bleedingly obviously wrong, then your constituents won’t believe that you’d stand up for them

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Beyond Bites at the Capital Markets has bloody good kottu, fyi Pōneke

I was reminded of this today

Pathetic and shameful

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

In the shadow of this

Congratulations fellas, we’ve all moved one spot up on the world’s most handsome man rankings

BREAKING UN investigators determine Israel has since October 2023 committed "genocide" in Gaza, with the "intent to destroy the Palestinians". "We came to the conclusion that genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur, and the responsibility lies with the State of Israel"

"Joss is a magnificent linguistic brocade that weaves together lines from museum labels, gravestone markers, diaries, news clippings, films, ancient Chinese poetry, various novels, history books, and interviews." ❤️Cybonn Ang reviews 'Joss: A History' by Grace Yee. www.takahe.org.nz/joss-a-histo...

There are thousands of us queuing to join the march.

The briefest internal twitch from Kash Patel

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

Sending aroha to all those marching tomorrow! Route change has been announced because of weather. Check your networks for details. #FreePalestine

Dave Pigeon fans! Bad Panda fans! This is it! This is the first book in my brand new series with #MinkyStapleton and I reckon you might like this one because I bloomin’ LOVE it. Happy reading, everyone 🦓🦝🐧🎉

It exists in physical form! THE EMOTION DEALER AND OTHER STORIES is only two months away from launch! Check out how great it looks!

Today! Looking forward to what should be a lively conversation on the satire we deserve right now. Free, Rongomaraeroa, Level 4, Te Papa, 1215pm - see you there.

This is very tempting... www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...

Duncan Sarkies, @pipadam.bsky.social and I are talking political satire tomorrow at Te Papa’s Writers on Monday tomorrow at 12.15 (FREE) - come along!

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

26 years after Georgina Beyer became the first openly trans Member of Parliament, our first non-binary MP is forced to resign following death threats and ongoing abuse. This is such an indictment of NZ politics. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...