These Two Hands News Today

In this extract from Everything I Know About Books Mary McCallum, of Mākaro Press explains how she came to publish a modern New Zealand classic - Auē! by Becky Manawatu.

The organisers want to help raise awareness of all the "brilliant" local creatives

UCR counts down every Bon Jovi song, from worst to best.

UCR counts down every Bon Jovi song, from worst to best.

The Biden administration released a plan to invest in more midwives to address the maternal health crisis.

It sells goods made by local makers

Tooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse, Massey University Press , published by Massey University Press. The award was announced at the Labour History Project AGM on Tuesday 20 July. Named for the late historian Herbert Roth, the award is presented annually to the work published in the previous calendar year that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand. The award was judged this year by Cybèle Locke, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Grace Millar, and Ros...

The viewing that got me through 2020 Before Covid, our entertainment diet was rich in psychological thrillers, police procedurals, whodunits and Scandi noirs. But with our world hurtling towards pandemic hell in a handbasket, I hungered instead to see how the story might look if we engaged a team of hopeful writers. It would have been mid-April in Lockdown when I realised my tastes in what I wanted to watch and read had changed. My husband, remote in hand, was suggesting we dive into a Netflix ...