New Zealand Listener

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Just don’t call it a boot camp • Instilling self-respect, self-responsibility and respect for others can divert young people from a life on the dole, writes Christine Fernyhough.

Faulty thinking

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Looking good on the KPIs • With the great blotting-out of key Labour policies accomplished, expect more plaudits for PM Christopher Luxon’s next 100-day plan.

Don’t mention the f-word

Cutting their stories short

Shock of the old

What’s eating the media

Can we have a word? • Puzzled by the meaning of something in a piece of local writing? You could look it up in a New Zealand dictionary. If there was one.

A Writer’s View • Fiona Farrell describes her love for dictionaries as a writer, reader and grandmother.

No safe haven • As groundbreak ing research casts shock ing light on women’s experience of domest ic v iolence, police plans to limit their response to “family harm” incident s are raising alarm.

Missing The Signs • Police are failing to recognise subtle forms of domest ic v iolence and cont rol, a researcher says.

Philosopher’s groan • We have no control over our lives, argues neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky. We are simply products of our physiology.

Pilgrim’s progress • With two spy thrillers out in quick succession after a long lull, celebrated author and screenw riter Terry Hayes ret races his w inding path from Mad Max days.

History repeating • This canny comparison of past and present examples of disinformation leaves the reader wondering if much has changed.

Call of duty • Scriptwriter’s tightly plotted, character-rich addition to the canon of local crime is a compelling read.

Who’s in and who’s out • Ockham book awards judges thin contenders down to the final few. 

Taonga to remember • The editors of a new book based on Te Papa’s New Zealand Wars Collections identify some favourites. 

To the island • Welsh writer’s tale set during the torrid mid-18th century in Scotland is one to savour. 

Who’s that Lady? • How Lady Shaka went from scholarship student to festival-headlining international DJ, via forays into dance and visual arts.

Living la vida Lopez • Graham Reid took on JLo’s triple whammy of movie, album and doco, and lived to write about it.

Resurrection blues

Once more onto the beach

Last tango on pampas

Children of a revolution • Captivating Oscar-nominated Tunisian doco uses actors to play absentee radicalised sisters.

In Shōgun’s time machine • The stars of the new adaptation of James Clavell’s samurai classic talk about their experiences on the epic production.

Taking a quantum leap • The creators of Game of Thrones have chosen existential sci-fi for their next mega-series.

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Shivers of delight

Weight of expectation • Diet culture makes us ashamed of our bodies, but weight-loss diets don’t work long-term or lead to better health.

Make and take • Australian country cook Sophie Hansen has some tasty treats for those occasions when everyone is asked to bring a plate.

Fresh from the bar • The MacDonald family’s move from dairying to vineyards has paid off.

Manãna, manãna • Procrastination afflicts most of us at some st age,...