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

A Hart(less) Act • The 10-year limit on semen storage is an unnecessary hurdle for young survivors of cancer, writes Ann Chapman.

Venn diagram for sustainability

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Trading favours • As we trip lightly around our relationship with China, we must tread a wary path on future alliances.

Think local for national change

X marks the spot for vitriol

Truth be told

The rest is history • Rest – both sleep and non-sleep – is essential to help our overstressed bodies and minds repair themselves. But many of us remain in a constant state of ‘fight, flight or freeze’.

Battling With Our Bodies • We need to stop being blind to the signs that we’re pushing ourselves too hard, says a clinical fatigue specialist.

Don’t Leave Me Alone With My Thoughts

Right and power • Israel is profit ing financially and extending its global technological influence in response to the October 7 massacre, says investigative journalist A ntony Loewenstein.

Dolphins be damned • Is SailGP’s future in this country really under threat because of an at-risk marine mammal?

Orwellian irony • Our thinking about one of the 20th century’s best-known writers is being challenged by the ‘smelly little truths’ Anna Funder uncovered about George Orwell’s marriage.

The Alchemist • Talent and a little magic have taken state-house kid Moses Mackay to the heights of Italian opera. He’s coming back to sprinkle some of his gold dust around.

Good Lord, he was scandalous • Lord Byron still fascinates 200 years after his death, but more for his bohemian lifestyle than his poetry.

Stars in their eyes • Debut novel a heady mix of grief, astronomy and love. 

Short cuts

Dark matter • Ngaio Marsh-style whodunnit set among academia attached to the Mt John Observatory.

Coming into view • Novel captures the pressure on patients, families and staff in a psychiatric ward.

Wild times for kids

Italian idyll

Mirren’s mirror on Meir • Dame Helen talks about playing Golda Meir, Israel’s iron lady, during a pivotal chapter in the controversial politician’s long career.

Game, set and match • Love, sex and great tennis take centre court in this highly charged drama.

Silence is golden

Still Screaming • Pearl Jam’s 12th album proves the senior statesmen have what it takes after 33 years.

Taylored To Startle • Swifties flocked to their idol’s latest release in their millions. Awaiting them was Taylor at her most raw and brave.

Good For A Laugh

Love Amid The Horror • Miniseries version of Holocaust bestseller makes its Kiwi author Heather Morris a key character.

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Baroque is best • Acclaimed cellist Mimé Yamahiro Brinkmann is bringing her period sound to Auckland.

It’s only natural • A charity which aims to normalise menstruation is pushing for equitable access to disposable and reusable products.

Spices of life • Kiwi food writer Ashia Ismail-Singer credits her mother’s recipes from her Indian heritage with fostering her love of cooking.

The Sauce • Aucklander Ashia Ismail-Singer shares with Alana Rae the reality of producing cookbooks in a crowded field.

Seeing red in Church Road • Top-quality wines don’t need to come with a hefty price tag. 

Hug it out •...