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

The killer you’ve never heard of • After nearly dying of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, Chris O’Brien calls for a national screening programme.

Uncomfortably different

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

Bright Lines

Policies for the homeless • Can Opportunity provide a real alternative for voters who feel abandoned by National and uninspired by Labour?

Intolerance is catchy

Roads to ruin

Courting power

Electric shocks

Pump up the volume • Protein is the new darling of marketers and influencers but it’s not all hype – we could all use a bit more in our diets.

Rfk’s Big Fat Diet

New Zealand idyll • For 60 years this week, Country Calendar has been appointment viewing in town and country. But is it authenticity or gentle myth-making that’s been the secret to its eternal success?

Savour The Date • Country Calendar episodes that entered folklore.

Climb every maunga • In the first of a two-part series, Steve Braunias, armed only with a bus pass, a flask of coffee and a shopping bag sets out to scale all of Auckland’s remaining volcanoes.

Sense of space • Architect Pip Cheshire leaves a remarkable legacy, one not defined by a signature style.

Going her own way • Million-selling author Deborah Challinor has won a gong for services to literature and historical research, but some things are best not revealed.

The mirror cracked • Charlotte Grimshaw’s latest novel is filled with characters and themes that recall her excoriating 2021 memoir.

Hidden histories • Two taut thrillers pit women against sinister forces and strained relationships.

No refuge • War crimes explored in deft blend of fact & fiction.

Nature of the beast • Ann Packer surveys the best new books for older teens.

Thoroughly versed • Nicholas Reid examines three quite different new poetry collections.

Turning of the tide • Splore is no more – the left-field music and arts festival that ran for nearly three decades called time with one last hurrah on the shores of the Hauraki Gulf. Long-time attendee Russell Brown was there.

Life of the Pati

Podium performance • The moment the film caught something special in a French recording studio.

A real crack-up • Actor-writer and former Shortland Street star Holly Shervey taps her own time in psychiatric care for her new rehab black comedy, directed by husband Emmett Skilton.

TV Picks of the week

TV sports

TV Films

The bad guy reborn • A modern spin on Bartók’s famous opera may well generate a few tears.

Attention needed • With a rise in diagnoses has come an increase in overdoses of the meds prescribed for ADHD – both accidental and deliberate.

Bittersweet • The Great British Bake Off inaugual winner Edd Kimber’s latest is a love letter to chocolate.

Peak reds (& whites) • Te Mata’s horizons have been expanding for more than a century.

Gold mind • Stress helps to energise us, but too much of it can dash our sporting dreams.

Mount impermanent • An ancient slippery soil may underlie the Mauao landslide.

LAZARUS TAXON TAONGA

Eye of the tiger