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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FOLK TALES • The work of the little-known folk artist Ōriwa Haddon can be found in standing exhibitions in country pubs, marae, community halls and small museums around the country.

LOVE OF THE HUNT • Whether you dream about Crown Lynn patterns in your sleep or love to scour op shops for cheap and cheerful treasures, these places to rummage are, we reckon, a cut above.

THE LEGACY • JOHN WALSH REMEMBERS ARCHITECT SIR MILES WARREN

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VOICE CONTROL • The battle lines over free speech — what it is, who has it, and whether it’s at risk — are being drawn, in a campaign driven by an unusual coalition of libertarians, academics who fear critical thinking is being lost, along with politicians and journalists who say they want to speak their mind and truth to power.

The Lexicon of the Current Debate

The Virus Hunter • By choosing a career in science over dance, evolutionary biologist Jemma Geoghegan may have saved your life.

A Lack of Trust • The abrupt closure of the Laura Fergusson Trust’s Auckland facility for disabled adults devastated them and their families and left many seething about the manner in which it was done. Now, with a new Ministry for Disabled People, will future decisions affecting a vulnerable community be better managed?

THE FERGUSSON LEGACY

PADDLING THROUGH HISTORY • A Ngāruawāhia waka ama club teaches tikanga along with the sport’s skills.

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THE DON • Don McGlashan this year enjoyed his first number one album in his 40-something-year musical career. Ahead of a nationwide tour, he speaks to Elisabeth Easther about his years playing the French horn, taking a “normal” amount of drugs for a rock star, getting arrested during the Springbok tour and all the reasons he has to be grateful.

MACHINE LEARNING • Playing a former sex bot in The Made raises familiar feminist questions for performance polymath Hannah Tasker-Poland.

Better Together • Tearepa and Reikura Kahi are a formidable force in the film industry. Their latest collaboration, Muru, is their most interesting work yet.

Lizard Brain • What do geckos have to do with winemaking? For Donald van der Westhuizen, everything about the land is connected.

HOME AGAIN • After a youth spent itching to be anywhere but Clyde, no one is more surprised than writer George Driver to find he’s now choosing to raise his own family in the Central Otago town.

BY GUM • There’s more to Dargaville than growing kūmara, and this volunteer-run museum is making sure visitors know it.

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A MISREPRESENTED MASTERPIECE • Salman Rushdie’s 1998 novel The Satanic Verses is still widely misunderstood — by both its enemies, and by some who claim to defend it.

GISBORNE • From its Māori culture and cycle trails to its chardonnay and cuisine, Gisborne has many attractions.

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THE GOOD LIFE • Misma Anaru (Rangitāne) lives with her partner and their cat, Lucifer, on Waiheke Island, where she works as a ceramicist, making practical objects for the home. Her work is angular — she doesn’t use a...