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 life less ordinary • Writing can take us on an often-forgotten journey back to the beginning, and memories, both happy and sad, will follow, says Colin Smith.

Unseating Muldoon

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

As one door opens … • Chris Bishop’s housing policy is the best evidence we’ve seen of a genuine change in economic direction – but it faces many challenges.

Football’s not-so-beautiful side

Lightning speed reversal

Strictly for the birds

Punishment should fit the crime

Worlds apart • In the wake of Kupe, Zheng He and Cook, a new breed of mostly deskbound adventurers are making incredible breakthroughs in the search for life-supporting planets.

It’s show time • Jonathan Kronstadt takes a deep breath, sorts out a wingperson and plunges into the parallel universe that is a Donald Trump rally.

Crash & burn • The sharemarket crash was the beginning of the end for the Lange-Douglas government but not the neoliberal economic path that would forever change New Zealand.

They boldly went • The country should be grateful that it had such brave and competent governments at such a challenging time in its history, writes Bryce Wilkinson.

Uphill battle • The first leg of the pilgrims’ trail, from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Pamplona, leads to uncomfortable thoughts.

Taking a stand • Award-winning YA writer explores the fraught business of modern-day Māori activism in her first novel for adults.

Deadly mountain • A child goes missing years after her sibling in this rollercoaster thriller, writes Chris Baskett.

Bordering on absurd • The fascinating story of how lines on the map came to be drawn where they are today.

Unhappy families • French author’s tough epic exposes intergenerational violence in all its brutality.

An affair of the heart • Life before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall is the backdrop to a powerful novel that fuses the personal and the historical.

Colour me wild • Ann Packer checks out the best new picture books for the youngest readers.

That 80s feeling • Before returning to NZ, the voices of the Thompson Twins and OMD chat about the dayglo good old days.

Amazing Gracie • Romantic wreckage in your mid 20s and not being able to sing in your 70s. BY GRAHAM REID

Reborn to be wild • Butler, Hardy, and Comer bring much-needed horsepower to retro biker flick.

Failure to launch

What we do in a time warp • Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi have put their own stamp on a remake of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 movie Time Bandits.

Myths and legends • Family secrets come out from the shadows in a new TV series aimed at finding some answers.

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The Storyteller • Gallic duo present one of the year’s most tempting programmes.

More Veges Bear Fruit • It isn’t as hard as it sounds to stick to the five-plus a day rule, so why do so many of us fail at it?

Nutrition Bites

Thai Break • Thailand-born, Paris-trained chef Orathay Souksisavanh’s latest book of 100 recipes takes you to the heart of her native cuisine.

A Tale Of Two Winemakers • Valli Vineyards’ Central Otago pinot noirs age well and have great power and density.

Yeah, Nah • Kiwis may not be quite ready to mark their national day with...