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.

A value on a life • Humans aren’t roads, but a similar cost-benefit approach to funding should help determine where to invest our health dollars, writes Ian Civil.

Bright Lines • Creative words competition

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dementia hope

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

Remote control • Labour’s party list reveals a top tier determined to protect its own, while perhaps counting on an overhang to boost the left bloc.

Architecture of appeasement

The green tide

Rich, sorted and entitled?

The hallelujah shed project

North London forever

Building a niche • With a fraction of our resources, Singapore’s enviable wealth is built around future planning and joined-up thinking. Meanwhile, NZ is culling its public sector.

Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now • A must-see exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery will alter the way you think about change.

Apartheid’s turning point • 50 years ago this month, hundreds of students in Soweto, South Africa were killed by police. And an All Blacks tour went ahead.

Commonwealth of Aotearoa • Debate over the meaning of ‘partnership’ between the British crown and Māori has become polarised, writes political scientist DOMINIC O’SULLIVAN. What if we thought of ourselves as equal shareholders in our own governance?

On Thames past • A recently discovered visitors’ book unlocks a door to early 20th-century British society.

Northern exposure • A rural GP’s lyrical reflections on life and work in the Hokianga and the door it opened to te ao Māori.

BESTSELLERS

Tales of the unspoken • Olive Kitteridge author’s latest relocates from Maine to Massachusetts at a time of growing madness.

Short cuts

Reign of terror • Darkly compelling tales from crime writers at the top of their game.

BESTSELLERS

Unfinished melody • Actor’s debut as a novelist is a case of what might have been.

Sons for the return home • From the team that brought Pasifika film Red, White and Brass to the stage comes an award-winning personal play about fatherhood and forgiveness.

Contact high • Steven Spielberg is back having fun with those aliens.

Crossroads • Kelly Moran’s music sits at the intersection of electronica and avant-garde classical.

Spitting hairs • Powerful tales of marginalisation from Aotearoa by way of Iraq.

Dwelling upon the past • How history podcaster found himself a headline act.

Going up in history • New digital platforms have found an appetite for stories of the ancient world.

Naval blazing • House of the Dragon helps ignite a new streamer to New Zealand market.

TV Picks of the week

TV Films • The big movies on TV this week

Raising their voices • Our world-beating schools choir celebrates 40 years before heading to Asia.

The fat trap • Avoiding the most harmful fats in packaged foods may not be as easy as simply reading the nutrition panel.

Nutrition bites

Free for all • Gluten-free recipes from seasoned writer and ambassador for Coeliac UK, Becky Excell.

Colour me noir • NZ is overflowing with quality pinot noir in the $20-$40 range.

Maxxing on the brain • Protein is essential to mental health but too much can blow your mind.

Space cowboys • SpaceX may set a record with its public listing but exploit an ethical and legal grey zone.

TAKE A BOW

A gutsful • There’s a rat in mi kitchen what am I gonna do? I’m gonna fix that rat, that’s what I’m...