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

Sort(ition) your act out • A tramping club committee’s vote allowing porn magazines got Pam Henson interested in how democracy could work better.

Herd mentality

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Boundaries blurred • It’s been impossible to ignore the US election, even though we have no say over the result. But who wins could be a sign of our own political future.

Strobe lights dimming

The two tiers of cannabis use

A U-turn over U-sages

Who’s in charge here?

Don’t call it a crisis • Midlife is a tipping point for many Kiwis but the changes in health and wellbeing are poorly understood. What can help the sandwich generation live long and prosper?

Leaving The Rat Race

Jobs For Life

Shades of green • Claims that consumer goods are environmentally friendly, sustainable or compostable often do not stack up. Do we need tougher rules, better policing, or both?

Behind The Labels

Commanding attention • Whanganui’s neoclassical Sarjeant Gallery reopens with a new wing more reflective of its place.

In the reds

Free falling • Carl Shuker’s latest novel, revolving around the troubled Kiwi editor of a British medical journal, is no jolly polite comedy.

Baby love • A lyrically told tale of a father and daughter fighting to keep an abandoned child.

Means to an end • Tightly woven second novel from Chilean writer Alia Trabucco Zerán on the relationship of a maid and her unruly charge.

Short cuts

In love and war • Richly drawn novel about the women who supported our WWII troops in Europe lays bare the realities of a long, cruel war.

Out of the ordinary • The master of the short story shines a light on the neglected corners of our lives.

Small acts of courage

Lord of the trills • Long before Peter Jackson brought the Lord of the Rings to the big screen, a musical was in the offing. Now, it’s finally here.

New beginnings

Critical moments

Shot of fame

Weird times

Love conquers hate

A broad church

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Tv Picks of the week

Tv Films

Saturday/rāhoroi November 9

Sunday/Rātapu November 10

Monday/Rāhina November 11

Tuesday/Rātū November 12

Wednesday/Rāapa November 13

Thursday/Rāpare November 14

Friday/Rāmere November 15

RADIO

Not all that jazz • Wynton Marsalis’s violin concerto gets its New Zealand debut.

Frozen in time • Leftovers needn’t turn into a chemistry experiment in the back of the fridge and will bounce back from freezing if you treat them right.

Hāngī time • Feilding-based stylist and photographer Christall Lowe celebrates food stories and recipes from the maunga to the moana.

From the stones • A ‘difficult’ and ‘tricky’ vintage caused by the weather still produced excellent reds.

Spare us our freedoms • The US election wouldn’t be close at all if New Zealanders were deciding.

The $31 billion payoff • Ultrafast broadband has already proved its worth and could add billions more to the economy.

Willkommen

Of peonies and peace