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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It’s not quite leeches but . . . • Multiple myeloma patients are waiting impatiently in a subdued holding pattern for effective, modern drugs, writes Bruce Cushen.

Mining, the legacy

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Ferrari Fixation • Gold-plated designs, bad management and inevitable cost blowouts continue to define our infrastructure spending.

Generating Chaos

Relax, it’s even more grim up north

Jailhouse Bloc

Straining the quality of mercy

In The Chill Zone • We’re only halfway through the year, but already a collection of great yarns, absorbing literature, brilliant memoirs and big ideas have grabbed our undivided attention. Books editor Mark Broatch surveys some of the best.

Stuff of fantasy • They may not win critical plaudits and they might fly under our radars, but a growing number of NZ genre fiction writers are in huge demand internationally.

Worth the mahi • Māori writers are riding a wave of international demand for stories from indigenous people, and it’s encouraging a shift in attitude from the authors themselves.

Winter books special • Young minds are increasingly being sheltered from “dangerous” fiction, especially in the US where many states are banning books for their sexual content. Surely, writes Kirsty Gunn, reading such texts makes us think.

Defining priorities • Sir Peter Gluckman, leading a once-in-a-generation review of science and universities, says significant change is on the cards – if he gets his way.

‘You were salvation’ • A repurposed supply vessel provides a lifeline to migrants who risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean in a desperate bid for a new life.

Art of glass • Despite her longing to shape and twirl molten glass, Orsola is forbidden from the workshop.

Secrets and lies • Hidden motives are at play in this novel about a young translator caught up in an affair with a married man.

Love in the driver’s seat • A woman escapes with her neglected grandkids in a cheering road-trip across Australia.

Odes to life • Mortality, memory and Tarot cards occupy collections from poets, including the late Vincent O’Sullivan.

Questions of honour • Fascinating insight into a doomed Antarctic expedition and how a feud between two officers played a crucial role.

A plague without cure • Millions died in what is regarded as the world’s first pandemic, one that helped put an end to an empire.

Artist of high standing • Waiheke Island sculptor Anton Forde talks about creating the largest contemporary pou installation of his career.

Calling on the muse • Kiwi journalist Garth Cartwright recalls his audience with the late Françoise Hardy in Paris.

Come dancing • Albums from Anna Coddington and Peggy Gou are smart and sassy. Bonny Light Horseman leans on heartache.

Time to rewind • A leaner NZ International Film Festival programme still offers promising local debuts and some art cinema classics.

Now for the news • How will Stuff’s take on broadcast news match up to its polished predecessor?

TV Picks of the week

TV Films • The big movies on TV this week

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Radio July 6-12

Making a pig’s air • Why Shorty’s resident composer has turned to barnyard ballet.

Culture club • Whether you make yoghurt at home with your own starter or buy a commercial...