New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener is the country’s most respected general interest magazine, bringing you a wide variety of news, stories, columns, reviews, plus TV listings, every week.

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A passage to India awaits • Considerable effort will be needed to achieve a free-trade agreement with the world’s fastest-growing large economy, says Nick Bridge.

Nice shot

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Schools for thought • The government believes our educational decline will be reversed by returning to policies of six years ago. Will it work?

Felds of dreams

On the brink, yet again

Shock and awe at Eurovision

Taking the state out of broadcasting

We need to talk about dying • Whether by choice or weight of numbers, more of us will die at home in future. And with pressure to ease assisted dying restrictions, the gaps in community-based care need fixing – before time runs out.

A mayor for everyone • The Far North’s first Māori mayor is one of an emerging political generation bringing equity to the forefront. But a government reversal on Māori wards looms as a stumbling block.

Growing Up In Public • Young politicians are an emerging force, particularly at local level. But they must quickly learn to deal with the blowtorch of scrutiny.

‘I’m Jo Peck again’ • Four weeks after her 60th birthday, Jo Peck’s husband of 25 years told her he was seeing someone else. In a new book, she details how shock and disbelief made way for happiness and contentment.

A continent of no laws • A Kiwi investigative journalist has spent 21 years trying to get to the bot tom of what many believe is the suspicious death of an Australian scient ist in Antarctica.

Affair of the heart • Miranda July’s second novel, a wild ride through an unconventional relationship, is not for the faint-hearted.

Book awards winners

All things being equal • Lionel Shriver’s latest novel is a provocative look at where dumbing down and cancel culture could lead.

Preying on our minds

Short cuts

Setting boundaries • A giant in the philosophy of gender seems unwilling to engage with alternative points of view or the reality of biological sex.

Lunar lovelines • The Māori lunar year, three very different new poets, a centuries-old story and 50 stories and 50 images.

The real queen of Bridgerton • Regency women would have a ball if they were transported from ‘the Ton’ to the present day, author Julia Quinn says.

Get with the pilgrim • Australian film-maker Bill Bennett thought turning his Camino de Santiago experience into a movie would be a good walk ruined. But he did it anyway.

Fiddling on the roof • After the doco recut by Peter Jackson, the original Let It Be returns as odd as ever.

A big noise • Scott Kara pays tribute to alternative rock figurehead Steve Albini.

Less revolution than evolution • The new Planet of the Apes has echoes of the original films but feels like a slow start to a new trilogy.

To absent friends • Sweetly old-fashioned kids’ movie tugs harder on grown-up heartstrings.

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Radio

It’s a kind of magic • The joy of yearning takes centre stage when the NZSO presents Sai Natarajan’s latest.

Blowin’ in the wind • Farting can be a sign of a healthy diet and a happy gut. But it’s possible to have too much of a good thing.

Winter warmers • Australian nutritionist Sarah Pound’s new book highlights her passion for food that’s wholesome and...