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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A hard pill to swallow • The axing of the new Therapeutic Products Act will ensure continued confusion and safety worries for consumers, writes Phil Rasmussen.

Balance of responsibility

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Renegade factor • Act’s David Seymour is riding a populist wave by saying things politicians are not supposed to, which worked wonders for Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.

A service in denial

Thin-skinned or battered?

Mysteries of the human animal

Ahead of the curvature • Research suggests declining bone health may have links to brain disease. What can we do to slow these processes?

Green ticket to ride • She has geckos behind her bread board, long-tailed bats and eels on her property and she drives an electric all-terrain vehicle. Is Celia Wade-Brown the perfect Green MP?

Primary colours • The presidential primaries set the stage for a November rematch that most American voters don’t want, but seem unable to avert.

A blank canvas • For Melbourne-based Richard Lewer, discovering the brutal history of the Waikato War meant confronting the silence he encountered in his Kirikiriroa upbringing.

A class of their own • Don’t dismiss the ‘bottom-feeders’ in today’s schools – history shows us the battlers can make it through, with some focused guidance.

(S)mall fortunes • What was intended as a pedestrian-friendly version of European street life has become the bane of many shoppers’ lives.

You say you want a revolution • Beginning with the Arab Spring, the 2010s ushered in a new dawn of protest. This lucid account of recent political and social history explains why the uprisings failed.

A touch of magic • Christchurch writer spins an enchanting story around shape-shifting kelpies.

BESTSELLERS

Words do not fail her • Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear – dementia – is a delight to read.

Love in the murder factory • An extraordinary romance was somehow able to blossom amid Auschwitz’s horrific ‘conveyor belt of death’.

BESTSELLERS

Fifth symphony • Composer John Psathas talks about the careful thought and cross-cultural collaboration that went into a work to be performed by the NZSO marking the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

In MacGowan’s wake • Lisa O’Neill – who sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral – is bringing her distinctive sound to Womad.

In the key of Oe • Hot offerings from a Kiwi jazz generation heading out into the world.

Redemption lost • What should have been a homage to a reggae superstar amounts to third-rate legend-polishing.

What we did on holiday • Behind the blunt title, a surprisingly nuanced teen comingof-age story.

Going back underground • A dig into Red Mole’s history produces vital arts documentary.

Big in Japan • The first adaptation of samurai epic Shōgun made television history. The new remake goes deeper.

TV Picks of the week

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

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Radio February 24-March 1

He’s got my dream job • New radio host has a gift for being in the right place at the right time.

Sound check • A new app is giving hope to some of the more than 200,000 people who suffer from tinnitus.

Cross cultures • Across the Tasman, Junda...