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.
New Zealand Listener
Open for business • Kiwis dug deep to support Hawke’s Bay after the cyclone, but the region now needs visitors to help boost its recovery, writes ELAINE ATKINSON.
Vaping under a cloud
Quips & Quotes
10 Quick Questions
The curse of consultants
Dig this
Truth trumps AI trolls
Chris & me up a tree • Nicola Willis puts the kibosh on mischievous suggestions that she and her party leader are anything but happy together.
Matters of the heart • Igor Felippe’s groundbreaking research into blood pressure has meant sacrifices and challenges, writes CAITLIN SYKES.
Leaving a legacy: why sustainable investing is important • Environmental and social pressures are growing, and older generations may find their finances affected if they don’t embrace more sustainable investing.
Arts & minds • Pressure on students to qualify for careers has seen the BA degree take a battering - but the results may not be as intended.
Eyes wide open • An English honours student is unfazed by suggestions his field of study is impractical.
Brain gain • Critical thoughts about the teaching of humanities.
State of inertia • It’s the time of the Great Centrist Drift, writes DANYL MCLAUCHLAN, an era of “lost opportunities and gradual failure driven not by ideology but a lack of it”.
‘Nowhere else to go’ • In 2012, Max Rashbrooke spent three weeks living in a Wellington boarding house, writing about the experience for the Listener. The place he chose, Malcolm’s, has since closed and Healthy Homes legislation has come into effect mandating insulation and heating standards for all residential properties including boarding houses and hostels. We are republishing Rashbrooke’s story from 2012 in light of the Loafers Lodge fire that killed at least five people on May 16. Loafers Lodge is not Malcolm’s, but it also housed a community of vulnerable people. A decade on, Rashbrooke’s experience still resonates.
Kevin Ireland 1933-2023 • GRAEME LAY remembers his long-time friend and colleague Kevin Ireland, writer, poet, translator and wit.
Today’s love poem
Starve the beast • Depriving cancer cells of carbs may bring hope to people with a particularly aggressive brain tumour.
HEALTH BRIEFS
Chew on this • When it comes to fibre, digestion isn’t everything.
NUTRITION BITES
Tried & true • Greek grandmothers take food writer ANASTASIA MIARI into their homes and share their time-perfected recipes.
Famous name’s golden return • NZ industry giant marks Montana’s 50th anniversary with a new range.
Mental block • Our vulnerabilities to disease and death can provoke reactions of “Eww!”
Mission control • The need to regulate artificial intelligence is becoming urgent and Europe is well out in front on this.
Going viral • An engaging examination of microbial diseases and their far-reaching impacts on human history.
BESTSELLERS
Out of the shadows • How two spooks and a chip shop owner helped broker peace in Northern Ireland.
Short cuts
The city as a stage • A young acting troupe fights to stay alive in a fantastical Elizabethan London.
A wing & a prayer • A child convict crosses boundaries amid the birth throes of colonial Auckland.
Death takes a toll • A woman who comforts the dying struggles to connect with the living.
History in the making • Bustling novel packs in 100 years of life and action in NZ and abroad.
BESTSELLERS
Diversions &…