North & South

North & South is New Zealand’s premier monthly current affairs and lifestyle magazine, specialising in long-form investigative journalism, delivered by award-winning writers and photographers. North & South also showcases New Zealand ingenuity and creativity, explores the country and profiles its people. It is a touchstone of New Zealand life.

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Bella Ciao • An anarchist collective says goodbye to a beloved comrade.

THE BALLAD OF PETRA AND JACINTA • Exploring the exotic phenomenon of ostrich grief.

Other Cases of Animal Grief

The City That Convicts Built • A tour of Wellington landmarks made by prison labour.

A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE • National Party deputy leader Dr Shane Reti describes his time on the front lines of the vaccine rollout.

The Fight for the Future of Farming • Meet the farmers who are risking their reputations to save our environment.

This is Like, TOTALLY Weird • Why your kid talks like an American.

THE CHANGE AGENT • Ngāi Tahu’s first female chair is on a mission to transform the iwi’s operations from the ground up.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON • Is New Zealand lending support to an aggressive American push to commercialise outer space?

EVERY SUNDAY MOTORCYCLE COLLECTIVE • Out for a ride with a different kind of motorcycle club.

Is This Just Fantasy? • Despite its immense popularity, genre writing like fantasy and romance struggles to be taken seriously by the literary establishment. Why?

ABOUT TOWN TE HĀPUA • Literary and political history fuses with family memories when a writer visits the country’s northernmost settlement, looking for traces of the late great Matiu Rata.

ALL THAT JAZZ • For years considered the domain of music geeks and highbrow snobs, jazz is making a comeback among Kiwi teens.

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Stacey Morrison on curating and celebrating stories of Māori excellence.

WHIZ // QUIZ

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Closed Encounters • Hard regional borders within New Zealand are novel within living memory — but Covid-19 checkpoints are not the first time some parts of the country have been sealed off from the rest.

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