The majestic waka hourua Hinemoana is returning to Te Waipounamu, carrying a vital kaupapa: revitalising Māori and Pacific ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

He stood next to an Aboriginal interpreter, who translated his statements into Kriol, the language many Aboriginal people in ...

In what's being hailed 'a win for all Indigenous languages', Yale is offering a course in te reo Māori - a first for any Ivy League university.

By Alexis Schaitkin Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures.

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

Christopher Summerfield’s book “These Strange New Minds” offers a lucid intellectual history of AI and argues that chatbots are more than clever copycats. Joshua Hammer’s “The ...

In his new book, Ian Leslie explores the close relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney and its demise. This week, Kristin Hannah answers our questions, what's she reading now ...

One of those scenes was five pages of dialogue and English is not her first language, but she killed ... an expert in Maori performing arts. “And serious dieting and a lot of injuries along ...

March 19, 2025 • Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in ...