Anna Rankin
Book Critic: Anna Rankin live from New York
We're going to chat books now and a new collection coming out in November is celebrating Auckland and some of the reasons people choose to live there. To share the details Anna Rankin joins Jesse, she… Audio
Book Critic: A deep dive into 'working homelessness'
Working homeless is a phrase that applies to people who are employed but don't have anywhere to live, generally it is a consequence of low wages or other financial instability. It's a topic author… Audio
Books Books Books: Some Helpful Models of Grief & Notes to John
Book reviewer Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about her recommendations, Some Helpful Models of Grief, from Compound Press, by Aotearoa writer and artist Hana Pera Aoake and Notes to John by Joan Didion. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Anna Rankin reviews Nadine Hura's Slowing the Sun and Forrest Gander's Mojave Ghost. Audio
Book Critic: 'Murdoch Stephen’s Visas Now!' & Lucinda Williams’ memoir
Anna Rankin reviews Murdoch Stephen's Visas Now! And she looks at Lucinda Williams' memoir Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today, Anna Rankin reviews Wellington writer Greg Kan's forthcoming poetry collection Clay Eaters. Audio
Book Critic: 'The New Faces of Fascism' by Enzo Traverso
Afternoons book Critic Anna Rankin joins Jesse to review the latest release by Enzo Traverso, which explores the development of fascism in the 21st century. Audio
Book Critic: A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
Anna Rankin reviews Caroline Crampton's new book, a fascinating mix of memoir, history and literary criticism. Audio
Book Critic: Becoming Aotearoa, by Michael Belgrave
Anna Rankin reviews a new NZ history book she says is going to become a classic. Audio
The half a million dollar decision still baffling the book industry
In 2021, a largely-unknown company was given $500,000 by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Three years later, there are still more questions than answers about Narrative Muse. Audio
Book Critic: travels in post-war Vietnam and Marxism in NZ lit
Dougal McNeill's Forms of Freedom, Marxist essays in New Zealand and Australia literature and Mary McCarthy's Vietnam. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna talks to Jesse about The Prism and teh the Rose and the Late Poems by Schaeffer Lemalu. She also mentions a book she's just started reading, The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today our book reviewer Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about Vincent Bevin's book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna talks to Jesse about Jared Davidson's book, Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna talks to Jesse about Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism. Audio
Book review with Anna Rankin
Today's book critic is Anna Rankin, who speaks to Charlotte Ryan about The Soccer War by polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna talks to Jesse about Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm and Susan Sontag Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna talks to Jesse about Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us. Audio
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about the latest book out from Mohamed Hasan. It's called How to Be a Bad Muslim. Audio