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

Age of confusion • The trouble with having the same name as someone else is that things get tricky when one of you dies, as Linda Burgess finds.

Fast track to road smashes

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Way to grow? • The coalition government’s tax cuts may not be enough to kickstart the economy and get us out of recession.

Nine people control our democracy

Peters thumps the tub

Sweet ideals

Betting the house • Ret irement villages rely on a business model that deters many prospective buyers. With demand increasing as the populat ion ages, clamour for reform is building.

Show Them The Money

Perfect Matches

Go north for a while • Acclaimed poet and GP Glenn Colquhoun has some sage words for Act leader David Seymour: taihoa on your Treaty of Waitangi referendum stuff.

Webb of intrigue • A retrospective of artist Marilynn Webb argues for her place as one of Aotearoa’s most important and innovative landscape artists.

Naked ambition • Harsh treatment has sent strip club workers on to the streets to campaign for legislative and workforce rights.

A kind of magic • With upcoming roles in The White Lotus and local production Friends Like Her, Morgana O’Reilly no longer feels the need to prove herself. But her unpedicured feet remain firmly on the ground.

Setting out for the summit • Airini Beautrais’ original and far-reaching personal essays place her at the top of the field.

The final countdown • In this puzzle box of apocalytic fiction, ideas of identity and control come together in increasingly sinister ways.

A broader canvas • Debut novel probes some of art’s biggest questions, but it’s also a long-distance love story.

Short cuts

Apocalypse? No • Data scientist Hannah Ritchie takes a mostly untravelled path between climate scepticism and climate doomerism.

More dread than hope • A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic looks at whether the current surge of the outsider is smashing old norms for the worse.

Chemical romance • A play about treating depression and medical ethics, The Effect reunites Zoë Robins with acting mentor Sara Wiseman in a production that marks both women’s return to the NZ stage after major screen roles overseas.

That’s the spirit • The latest Ghostbusters unites the casts of the 1984 and 2021 movies for more fun with the paranormal.

Blood, sweat, and affairs • Kristen Stewart lays Bella Swan to rest yet again in sultry lesbian romantic crime thriller.

Somewhere down the lilac river • Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker offers a solo take on weird Americana while Laetitia Sadier embraces nuanced art-pop and electronica.

Putting his stamp on it • Toby Jones on helping bring the British Post Office scandal to life in the hit drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office.

Sons of a preacher man • New local drama Testify pits an Auckland evangelical church against the LGBTQ+ community.

TV Picks of the week

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

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Radio April 6-12

Upping sticks • US percussionist Jacob Nissly guest stars with the NZSO on a custom-made concerto.

Listen to your heart • NZ researchers aim to improve understanding of a dangerous form of irregular heartbeat that often goes undetected.

As easy as pie • MasterChef finalist Alice Taylor’s debut cookbook...