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.

NEW ZEALAND LISTENER

Palmerston North or bus • For many, buses are the cheapest, most efficient form of inter-city travel. So, asks JUDITH GALTRY, why are services so overlooked?

Gene tech conundrum

THE POLITICAL CARTOON

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

Bright Lines

Unplanned Obsolescence • AI has reached a point of singularity. As we sit in post-election limbo, dare we contemplate politics going the way of the handloom?

Ardern’s new mission

Halloween horror show

Letting Them Off Lightly?

Putting the ‘no’ in November

A world of his own

Stealthy killer • A little-known immune reaction that can quickly make infections life-threatening is on the rise worldwide, but our health bureaucracy has been slow to respond.

A Slippery Slope • A misdiagnosed infection after a cut on his foot nearly killed an Auckland man. After six years of surgery and therapy, he’s almost ready to reboot.

Rolling digital dice • New legislation has so far had little effect on gambling advertising targeting young men. Should New Zealand follow Australian efforts to limit promotion?

A stitch in time • A former surgical trainee has spent eight years perfecting a device that could end the painstaking reconnection of arteries by hand during surgery.

It’s not me, it’s you • Young people are separating themselves from their families in growing numbers. Why do Gen Z kids hate their parents?

Cruel Cuts • Estrangement can be traumatising for those left behind. Two parents share their stories, and their very different reactions.

Stuff of legends • Bestselling author of The Historian exhumes her characters for entertaining gothic historical mystery.

Smoke And Mirrors • Enchanting debut follows two women as they drift in and out of each other’s lives.

Curious worlds • Four new books by acclaimed YA authors explore dystopian themes that cross over and reverberate.

In the old style • A dead woman’s younger, hidden self is revealed through her daughter’s reluctant adherence to tradition.

That sinking feeling • Cruise-ship mystery sets off well but struggles to stay afloat.

Come back to bite ewe • Director Jonathan King talks about shepherding a sequel to his cult comedy horror Black Sheep to the big screen.

Californian dreamer • Courtney Barnett on desert life, how not to run a record label, and why there’s no coffeetable book of her pottery.

Show Of Good Faith

Finely Woven

Peep Show

Malkovich’s Coup

Wing Wonder • Jonah Lomu was a one-of-a-kind rugby phenomenon, but he didn’t have it easy.

TV Picks Of The Week

TV Films

Merging talents • Liam Wooding joins Rob Thorne on a concert tour of piano and taonga puoro.

In A Heartbeat • Unless an AED is close to hand, your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest fall by the minute. Several moves are under way to improve community access.

Afternoon delights • A second helping of sweet treats from Michelle Morfett, owner of Auckland’s Mint Cakery.

Blanc canvas

Memory Block

Feeling the heat • The shrinking sea-ice ‘apron’ around Antarctica threatens global ripple effects.

A STARRING ENTERPRISE

Flame Trees Of Kaitaia