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.

Masthead

‘Look at her face’ • Letting go of life can sound alarming to those loved ones witnessing it but it is all part of achieving a good death, says Valerie Norton.

Mirror on society

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Luxon’s drug problem • National shot itself in the foot with a promise on the hustings it couldn’t hope to fulfil.

Europe’s callow youth

Wake up to WokeUp

Let’s be havin’ yer

Parliamentary fast track

Let the people speak • Efforts to shut down hate speech risk harming the very people they’re designed to protect, says a US activist and writer.

Inciting Confusion • Five years on from the Christchurch mosque massacres, promised hate-speech law reforms are yet to appear, but Scotland has forged ahead.

Faith-Based Call • Current legislation covering hate speech is incoherent, argues the Islamic federation.

Muldoon’s Meltdown • Forty years ago, an inebriated prime minister announced what became known as the “schnapps election”. No one could have guessed that the result would lead to an economic revolution.

Testing Times • Forty years after the birth of New Zealand’s first test-tube baby, doctors and advocates are calling for changes to the ‘discriminatory’ criteria that restrict access to public IVF.

‘Grateful Every Day’

Keep Looking Up • The awe-inspiring night skies we enjoyed last month when a powerful solar storm struck have a more sinister side. It’s time we planned for the potentially deadly outcomes.

Bringing On Back The Good Times • A new book explores the notion of nostalgia and finds thinking about the past can make people happier and more content.

Long Way Home • Sequel to Brooklyn traces heroine Eilis Lacey’s return to the Irish life she abandoned 20 years earlier.

A Jolly Good Show • Exuberant historical fiction led by two plucky young women seeking freedom after the Great War.

Skin In The Game • A story of comeuppance for two self-serving brothers who plunge into the shifty world of football scouting.

Short cuts

Hard On The Trail • Sidekick gets main billing, violent acts in a small town, and a haunted man with a Halloween deadline.

What’s up, my G? • Rachel Cusk’s 12th novel continues to push fiction’s boundaries and our expectations of character and creativity.

Breaking the silence • Three new novels explore the often perilous lives of young women and children in the 19th century.

Beat of a different drum • Recreating a rugby stadium in a theatre was just one of the hurdles faced by the team bringing hit movie Red, White and Brass to the stage.

Treading the boards

Rose tinted • Georgia Lines’ outstanding first album, plus new offerings from Park Rd and Polite Company.

Get it out of his system • NZ resident & LA rock star Serj Tankian on why his memoir goes much wider than his time with band System of a Down.

Meet-cute in Paris

Really hitting it off

Not the King James version

TV Picks of the week

TV Films

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Oh, sister, where art thou? • Mozart’s sister gets third act in new documentary.

Pump up the protein • Sources of protein are not created equal in terms of how they’re absorbed in the body.

Dine time • Melbourne chef Ellie Bouhadana’s cookbook is rich with recipes...