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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One step at a time • Go for a walk. It’s all that’s needed to get fitter and healthier, writes Walk1200km founder Alistair Hall.

Inconvenient truths

Bright Lines

10 Quick Questions

Quips & Quotes

An autumn of ordinariness? • It’s been a summer of discontent for the coalition government but it will be hoping for calmer times ahead.

Tractors at the gates

Weirdly routed

Boarding school bluff

Rough justice

‘I owe my life to art’ • Nathan Joe was in his 20s when he felt strong enough to come out to his parents. Now, he is the creative director of Auckland Pride.

Tour of terror • After one of the most explosive encounters involving NZ soldiers since Vietnam, traumatised soldiers returned home from Iraq ‒ to silence.

Turtle recall • Red-eared slider turtles have gone from pets to pests. Until now, it’s been too cold for them to breed here but global warming could change that, putting our native species further at risk.

WINGING IT

Past & present tensions • Contested histories – including treaty interpretations – stem from individual memories and experiences, historian Rowan Light suggests.

Hell in high waters • A year ago, Auckland flooded. Since then, many residents have been living in limbo with glacial progress on repairs.

First impressions • What does the year hold for fiction? Mark Broatch checks out five promising titles from first-time novelists.

University blues • Money is at the heart of this wide-ranging campus novel featuring a group of women from very disparate backgrounds.

Vital acts • Patricia Grace’s late-life story collection weaves together myth and contemporary tales.

Listen up • An exploration of noise that will open your mind to the world of sounds in nature and beyond.

Tainui uprising • He taught a mate to dance in a beer ad and portrayed Billy T James on television, but actor-playwright Tainui Tukiwaho’s heart is in the creative possibilities of theatre – and three new shows he has on the go.

Film

Emotions to the fore • Sleater-Kinney make a grief-stained return and the debut by London’s Folly Group suggests they are going post-punk places.

It’s from Hōne to Heke • Tāmati Rīmene-Sproat’s Waitangi Day special isn’t the treaty treatise he’d planned. But it’s still an illuminating look back at our national day.

Warming to the idea • Adaptation to climate change is focus of NZ-made nature series with global reach.

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Podium positions • Wellington and Christchurch are in for some orchestral treats.

Dairy dilemmas • Dairy milk has been shown to be a cause of excess mucus production in some people, but now the finger is being pointed at processed foods.

Plates of perfection • Christchurch cooking teacher & renowned caterer Tina Duncan has gathered together some of her popular dinner party recipes.

Savour your blushes • Rosé is enjoying something of a renaissance as people warm to its fresh, dry finish.

Acting on impulse • Theft is more common when the economy is down but shoplifting can signal a serious disorder.

Out of gas • The barriers to electric vehicle upt ake in NZ go further than range anxiety.

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