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.

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Nature is culture, too • Conservationists need to think more flexibly than ‘natives over exotics’ in deciding what’s worth saving,

Creative Words Competition

Election Games

The Political Cartoon

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

The People Have Muttered • The confused message from voters opens the door to a troubled three years with a mighty hangover.

Off Brand

Hope Lies In The Space Between

What just happened?

Better did not start now

Beware The Lame-Duck President

The Elephant In The Room • Suffering is the brain’s way of trying to guide us to safety, says a psychologist who urges us to work with those unwanted thoughts and feelings.

Do The Drugs Work? • Opinion is split on whether depression and anxiety have treatable biological causes.

Out Of The Danger Zone • In this book extract, JOHN HANNAN explains the brain’s corrective mechanism.

LLOYD GEERING 1918-2026 • The 1960s ‘heretic’ became an exemplar for practising spirituality in a secular, modern world.

Ferocious in defence • After six decades of fighting for justice – from homicide cases to major public scandals – legendary defence lawyer Nigel Hampton KC faces a final verdict.

Righting wrongs • In an extract from his book, NIGEL HAMPTON acknowledges the role of popular culture in overturning miscarriages of justice.

God’s Work • Newly honoured ‘public theologian’ Jenny Te Paa Daniel is not afraid of making mischief in her pursuit of inclusion and equalitywithin the Anglican church.

A novel take • A meticulous, splendidly critical volume runs the rule over 300 years of British novelists.

The Celebrity Sphinx • Biography of famed New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm painstaking but overly enchanted by its subject.

In so many words • Annie Proulx underlines her reputation as a storytelling virtuoso with a retrospective collection that includes several new stories.

Survival of the fittest • Kiwi author takes a zeitgeisty, gently satirical look at the wellness industry.

Modern Model • The Court Theatre’s new production of The Pirates of Penzance takes on the lavish Gilbert and Sullivan classic with just five multi-tasking performers.

The Noa generation • This year’s Silver Scroll-winning song and the band behind it are the friendly face of an esoteric record label in inner-city Auckland.

Shooting star • Teeks slips into something more comfortable on sexy second album.

In Plain View • Radical honesty fails to get a fraudster off the hook in this doco.

The ascent of Mann

Inhuman touch

TV Preview & Picks of the week

TV Films

Bach up the truck • A reconstruction of Johann Sebastian’s French Overture has a Peter Jackson connection.

Troubled waters • Chlorine in drinking water prevents serious illness, though the jury is out on its influence on gut bacterial health.

Packing A Punch • Of Cuban-American origins, Sydney-based chef Danielle Alvarez has made her name with sharply flavoured fare.

The grape divide • New wines that don’t come from the big four varieties are now on the market.

A good death • How we care for the dying is an important reflection of how much we value life.

Tech bros lose their shield • The US Democratic landslide could give New Zealand more room to set its own rules.

COMEDY GIANT

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