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

Living in rubble • Jessie Watson recently swapped her Marlborough farm for three weeks in Gaza working with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Equity over equality

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Straight and narrow • Beneficiaries are in the firing line from the government’s tough love. Where’s the political courage to mete out the same to the wealthy?

Mirror images

Getting to the point

Return to sender

Press for independence

Dial a diagnosis • Telehealth is plugging gaps arising from the GP crisis – and one ser vice is w inning plaudit s for its focus on inequity.

Staying put • A New Zealand postgraduate student has been a regular visitor to Ukraine for the past year. Here, he reports on the toll of two years of attritional warfare.

Pain in the arts • Creative NZ has cut some of the red tape for grant applications but funding is still a long, hard battle for any kind of artist in Aotearoa.

Warblers Over Wānaka? • Philanthropy, sponsorship and crowdfunding are all options for keeping the arts alive.

Hip, hip for Hamilton • They came, they stayed and now a throng of entrepreneurs, artists and philanthropists are making the Waikato city cool again.

Warmly Rapt

Bring forth good fruit • An enthusiastic ramble in pursuit of the history, science and tireless devotees of one of our most polarising fruits.

Look back in langour • Nostalgia is enjoyed across societies and in popular culture, so why is the word so often used with a sneer attached?

No word for it • One woman’s courageous response to the unfathomable loss of her journalist son, publicly murdered by Isis.

Badges of honour • Travel during the Middle Ages wasn’t that dissimilar to tourism now, as this enlightening book shows.

Making a killing • Christchurch writer Paul Cleave has turned his debut novel into a series he hopes will be our darkest TV show – until his next one.

In the House of Höss • A sombre reflection of life on the perimeter of Auschwitz.

Well Taylor-ed • With friends in tow, the Listener’s resident Swiftie ALANA RAE joined the 96,000 fans at one of the pop superstar’s record-breaking Melbourne shows. Here’s how it went.

Delivering in volume • Glasgow art-rock band Mogwai return after a surprise UK No 1 and adding their sonic touch to top television shows.

Her Prince has come • Alabama Shakes’ frontwoman channels purple rock royalty on new solo album.

Tv Picks of the week

My maternal manhunt • Why comedian James Mustapic has made a show about finding a bloke for his mum.

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Radio

In the words of wāhine • Women composers and poets combine in a new album.

Message in a bottle • Plastics are leaching into our water and ending up in our bodies.

Curb the carbs • Nutritional scientist Jürgen Vormann’s high-fat, low-carb recipes can encourage weight loss, as long as you get the ratio right.

Seductive scents • The nose knows when it comes to aromatic wines.

A perfect storm • Striving for perfection can have its downsides, especially for children. 

Eyes on the aisles • Facial recognition has a role to play in retail security – as long as we know how it is being used.

Freedom Is An Iron-Like Flower

Lambs to the laughter