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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Sharing the dream • As Matariki approaches, Renee Alleyne applauds a Māori language programme battling to stay on course in a time of Covid.

Short on staff and a strategy

Caption competition • THIS WEEK’S PICTURE

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Suffer the children

A house divided

Nothing super about it

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?]

Missing in action • On law and order and Pacific relations, government ministers look short on ideas and lacking intent.

On your bike • E-bikes could play an important role in lowering carbon emissions but the challenges will be affordability and providing enough cycleways.

Saddle savvy • The nuts and bolts of what to look for if you’re thinking of buying an e-bike.

Waiting on the night train • In April 2018, journalist and Epuni Boys’ Home veteran DaVID COHEN previewed the Abuse in Care inquiry in these pages. Four years on, he revisits an exercise that has only expanded in scope, cost and duration.

Power player • Whakatāne mayoral aspirant Professor Victor Luca, a scientist who has spent a career in the nuclear industry, says his peers are conspicuous by their absence “in all political circles” in New Zealand.

Late careers of the brilliant • Wide-ranging English writer Geoff Dyer’s new book is a meditation on genius and ageing. He talks to Andrew Anthony about tennis, slowing down and why he’s serious about joking.

Craving company • A surge in loneliness has been one of the fallouts from the pandemic and it is the young who are suffering the most.

HEALTH BRIEFS

Empty hours • Extended overnight fasting, as promoted by diet guru Michael Mosley, may not be wise for older people.

NUTRITION BITES

THE SPICE TRAIL • Food writer Eleanor Ford takes you on a culinary journey around the world of spice.

Great whites in Hawke’s Bay • A selection of chardonnays from the 2020 growing season showcases the region’s diversity at a range of price points.

Deceptively simple • It turns out that lying with a straight face isn’t as important as keeping your lie in order under extra mental stress.

Touch wood • Our native cabbage trees are popular around the world, but climate change puts them at risk of disease here.

Stolen childhoods • American author Leila Mottley was still a teenager when she wrote a novel based on a real-life tale of abuse, neglect and police corruption. She spoke to Rebecca Zhong.

Looking for Mr Wrong • An engrossing collection of short stories might be the anti-Sex and the City.

Common touch • A tenderly harrowing trans-Tasman tale about the toll of emotional isolation.

Watching over us all • Science, spirituality and culture combine in a selection of books celebrating Matariki.

Rogue sailor • A revisionist history of Ferdinand Magellan finds the explorer doomed by his hubris.

Cry from the heart • Isobel Beech’s debut novel explores the devastating effects of a parent’s suicide.

DIVERSIONS

Shoot for the moon • Aussie actor Damon Herriman takes a break from playing baddies to get his kit off in bonkers Kiwi comedy Nude Tuesday.

Sting in the tale • A family drama set on a small Croatian island stars a Kiwi cultural chameleon.

Lessons in living • A city teacher learns about himself and his calling in an isolated village in Bhutan.

True to form • Liam Gallagher releases two albums of arena-pleasing rock’n’roll ahead of his visit down under.

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