Arts and Letters Daily
Arguably the single most useful web portal for all bookworms and lovers of the literary world: its life, times, and intelligence. Also provides extensive links to book review sites.
Book Browse
Offers synopses, multiple reviews and excerpts from the most interesting current books. Browse by genre, title or author. Other features include reading guides, previews, interviews and visitor forums.
New Zealand Book Council
New Zealand's foremost literary organisation. It presents a wide range of programmes promoting a love of books and reading. In addition, their website presents a section devoted to literary tourism around the country and extensive files on New Zealand writers.
Book Forum
Selected reviews (both fiction and non-fiction) and literary criticism from the printed version of this magazine.
Booklist
The online version of the American Library Association's reviews-based magazine.
January
This online magazine features reviews, interviews and excerpts from a broad range of fiction and non-fiction books.
Leafsalon
A great website with a very good design! Well mantained with comprehensive coverage of New Zealand literary news and events, with book reviews and blogged comments. Has links to its own “Definitive NZ Lit List”.
The London Review of Books
Gives you access to the current issue of the magazine, plus previous reviews.
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency
The website of the McSweeney's publishing enterprise in the Unites States. A new story is featured every day - so there is a huge archive of work. It has loads of weird lists of things (for example, Rejected Marketing Slogans for National Poetry Month), and other things.
The Modern Word
This is an incredibly dense website - in the best sense. There are large sections devoted to some major 20th century writers, interviews with contemporary writers, reviews of new and old fiction titles, columns, links - all interesting and potentially exhausting.
Mostly Fiction
A site created by a woman who says she loves “a good find“ as a consequence of living on a boat. A dozen independent contributors review the latest fiction. Browsable by genre, authors, etc. Also offers chapter excerpts from many titles.
New York Review of Books
Selected book reviews and critical essays from the printed version of the ubiquitous United States publication.
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
Coming to you from the University of Auckland, this site provides a gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region.
New Zealand National Radio
Forgotten that book mentioned on National Radio?
Relax - they publish a weekly round-up of book titles mentioned on their programmes, including Nine to noon, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, and Bookmarks.
The Times Literary Supplement
Selections from the printed version of the current issue.
World Literature
Customers' reviews of books from around the world, browsable by an author's country of origin. |
