Tobias Buck is a New Zealand writer living in Amsterdam. He’s won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the Landfall Essay Prize, and prizes in the Sargeson and Jancis Robinson Wine Writing Competition.
Happiness by Numbers
The latest UN World Happiness Report is out. But is Wellbeing data really being used to make policy? This feature looks at the UK, NZ, Finland, Iceland and beyond…
Cyclone Gabrielle
A follow up series of interviews to my cover feature on the regional impact of the South Pacific Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023.
Out of the Box
Interviews with the happiest club in Hawke’s Bay! This D.I.Y. Coffin Club gets people used to the idea of death, while also serving the community.
Lessons From an Exile
Published on JancisRobinson.com at Christmas last year.
My thoughts on missing home and vineyards.
Herman & The Serpent
An interview with a friend who caught a serial killer. (As mentioned in The New Yorker and LongReads.com yearly list of best nonfiction essays.)
Regenerative Viticulture in a 130-year-old Cabernet Vineyard
‘A World Upside Down’, Jancis Robinson Judge’s Prize for Wine Writing 2022
I also make commercial content for Magnum Photography, MTV, Lexus, National Geographic, Rockstar Games, VICE, Jaguar, TIME and others. Always open to connect…
Jurassic Wines
An interview with winemaker and actor Sam Neill. The last profile for my wine column ‘The Grapevine’ at North&South Magazine.
‘Profound writing - full of persuasive visual detail, with an incredible ear for everyday speech.’
Emma Kneale, Landfall Journal Editor
‘Brash, unapologetic and completely confident writing. It takes a series of risks, almost sinks itself, and somehow gets away with it. I kept returning to it and had to put it at the top of the pile.’
Charlotte Grimshaw, Mansfield Award Judge
NZ at the Venice Biennale
An interview with the wonderful and impressive Yuki Kihara about ‘Paradise Camp’ at the Venice Biennale. Online
The Hunt for Big Red
Do winemakers in New Zealand seek to create the Antipodes ‘big red’? Or do they change the script entirely?
Foreword to a Road Trip
Wine photographer Richard Brimer let me write the introduction to Road Trip 2021 - a collection of NZ vineyard images. Richard’s always up to something fascinating. Catch up with his projects on his Instagram.
A Fresh Edition
I used to work at Unity Books Wellington, and helped redesign the store with Tilly Lloyd. It’s an independent, award-winning bookshop many times over. I encourage everyone to get to know one of the world’s great bookstores!