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

Ninety seconds to doomsday • New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance – at risk of compromise through our security partnerships – must be upheld, says Russell Tregonning.

Nurses show the way

Bright Lines • Creative words competition

Everything to Play For • The QI elves are a team of writers and comedians doing the research for the QI TV series, podcasts and books. For the next few weeks we’ll be running weird, wonderful and wise findings from the latest: Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sport.

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Royally trumped

Music to my ears

Contortionists gone rogue

Back to black

Piercing propaganda • Opportunities have ‘fallen out of the sky’ for Barbara Francis. Now, the 85-year-old has turned her attention to righting misconceptions over one of the major battles in the Waikato War.

School daze • The new government plans sweeping changes in a bid to drag us back to where we used to be – near the top of educational league tables.

Follow The Science • The government is signalling a ‘big shift’ in the way subjects are taught.

Digital Decline • Too much screen time is bad for your maths, it seems.

Forget The Fads • Scientific evidence will be the guide to curriculum changes in the future.

Breaking the ice • Scientists have spent the summer drilling into the Antarctic seafloor to learn from the past what we can expect from future sea level rise.

Rhythm Of The Ice

More than physical • A former GP’s self-help prescription which takes a broad view of wellbeing is gaining traction, despite some colleagues’ scepticism.

Watch And Learn

Going Dutch • The Netherlands has lurched further to the right politically, but Amsterdam is still a beacon for Kiwis wanting to experience European life.

Back cover story • You may not be aware of them, but book blurbs are a crucial part of your reading experience.

Blackjack • Each summer, we invite some of Aotearoa’s finest writers to tell us a short tale. Here is the final instalment on this year’s theme, ‘second acts’.

Crushers

Blackcurrants

Wearing art on their sleeves • Famed lensman Anton Corbijn talks about his latest, a movie about the men who defined 1970s album covers and, over the page, he looks back at his own photographic rock history.

Time lapse snapshots • Anton Corbijn looks back at his decades of photographic adventures in the music business.

Soothe operator • Grammy-winning Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab is bringing her meditative, minimalist music to New Zealand festivals.

Wired in the past • Some of our most fascinating television history is hiding in plain sight on TVNZ+ and NZ On Screen.

Cost a bomb • Big-budget Spielberg WWII epic recreates the peril faced by USAAF airmen over Europe.

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Radio

Intrigue awaits • The NZSO offers some out-of-the-ordinary concerts this year.

Spear the cooking • Broccoli is vitamin- and nutrient-rich but go easy on the type and length of cooking.

Share joy • The flavours and colours of the Mediterranean take centre stage in Kiwi cook Kelly Gibney’s latest book.

Summer sippers

Low expectations • Being slightly pessimistic about how your life will pan out this year could have...