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

One from the art • Steve Thomas reads the government’s draft strategy for the arts and wonders where the art is.

Toilets reclassified

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Where to next? • The departure of two key figures draws a squiggly line under Labour’s Ardern years.

Clown prince in waiting

Enslaved by big tech

Missing the cut

Artist enters purgatory

Deputy Dave • He suffered years of poor poll results and jibes about his dancing, but Act leader David Seymour is on the cusp of becoming Deputy Prime Minister.

Rules of engagement • The Trump administration has thrown European security and the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into disarray. Andrew Gunn reports from Kyiv and Listener correspondents update the fallout in the UK and Germany.

Trump appeasement • The UK hopes to mask its powerlessness by massaging the ego of the US President.

Rearming Germany • Berliners are maintaining customary freedoms but geopolitical shifts have upended their country’s post-war self-image.

Undercover creep • Hundreds of women and children are likely to be the victims of sex offenders without knowing it because of the increasing sophistication of hidden spy cameras

Hokianga rebellion • How the intervention of a great-nephew of Hōne Heke and the advent of the telephone defused the last armed resistance by Māori against the British crown.

Name of the father • Debut a restrained and compelling exploration of alternative lives.

Swirling seas • Philosophy, science and history swirl together in engrossing latest from Canadian author.

What’s left unspoken • Place and identity are central to American Dirt author’s latest.

Level best • Patience pays dividends for big winners in Ockhams.

Things in common • A husband’s death brings together three school friends.

The lies we tell ourselves

Short cuts

BESTSELLERS

Don’t tell me • Political scientist Mark Lilla tries to get to the bottom of why we prefer not to know.

BESTSELLERS

To Paris, via Austen • This year's French film festival delivers a movie bringing a Gallic sensibility to that most English of novelists.

Taking the heat • Fast-order special captures the flavour of restaurant life.

Seasoned in the sun • Memoir adaptation peppered with inspirational moments.

Dancing to my own tune • Sefa Enari has been forging a path in contemporary Pacific choreography and theatre over the past four decades.

Voom in bloom • Auckland band’s third album was 19 years in the making.

Living the dream • Famous as Tina from Turners, Bubbah, the comedian and reality star, brings silliness to serious life questions.

Tv Picks Of The Week

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

Saturday/Rāhoroi May 24

Sunday/Rātapu May 25

Monday/Rāhina May 26

Tuesday/rātū May 27

Wednesday/rāapa May 28

Thursday/rāpare May 29

Friday/rāmere May 30

Radio May 24

Bohemian Baritone • Playing destitute artist in Puccini’s classic rings true for rising Aussie opera star.

Coconut Shy • The much-hyped health benefits of coconut products do not extend to Western diets – but you needn’t shun them altogether.

Pass the olive oil • ‘Bad boy’ English chef Thomas Straker turns his back on his famous butter recipes for lashings of a healthier alternative.

Foreign Flair • An increasing presence on our shelves, there...