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

Cheers to cutting back on booze • Smoking’s link to cancer is well known and it’s time the same connection was made with alcohol, writes Andrew Shelling.

Choosing to divest

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

The risks of staying schtum • Chris Hipkins seems to have decided the less said the better in the run-up to election year, leaving a vacuum for … guess who?

Alles verboten – almost

American dystopia

Great balls of briar

A rubber stamp to process

Te reo rises again

Talkin’ bout te reo-lution • The coalition is behaving as if Kiwis are gagging on too much te reo Māori, but new research shows the opposite as irritated reo champions push back.

Where Do You Sit? • There are steady shifts in the attitudes of most demographic groups towards te reo and culture.

Kiwi kupu • A new book about language in Aotearoa reveals the two-way trade in words that exists between te reo Māori and NZ English.

Culture of unease • What does it mean to be Māori if you haven’t grown up in that world? Chris Mirams explains his conflicted feelings about his heritage.

Bones of contention • A NZ anthropologist is out to ensure human remains held by museums and medical schools are better respected.

Scalpels Down • Waikato’s planned new medical school aims to shut the door on cadaver dissection in favour of digital alternatives.

Exploiting Our Most Vulnerable

A message that carries • Our new Poet Laureate has plenty to say – about colonisation among other things – but believes in taking readers with him in the waka.

Faking it • Ian McEwan’s apocalyptic new novel centres on a mystery poem, a shocking death and a couple’s thwarted dream life.

In with the new • What’s the goal of immigration? Whatever the rationale, New Zealand today prefers newcomers with skills and cash.

Short cuts

Thrilling on all counts • Three storytellers put families through the ringer.

In the interests of justice • Oz author’s tough-minded woman detective returns to hunt down father who absconds with his baby.

Bestsellers

Southern descent • Echoes of Dickens in deft satire about status and ambition within a Kentucky family.

Bestsellers

Anything to declare? • The World of WearableArt returns this month with dozens of costume creators from around the globe who have previously made the pilgrimage. We surveyed some about what keeps them coming back to Wellington.

Trauma specialist • Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby has won acclaim for its poignant, funny story about the healing power of friendship.

Infidelity – it’s a hoot • An absurdly tangled love quadrangle is lit up by brilliantly witty writing.

Personal questions • Quizzical as ever David Byrne and Blood Orange’s questing Devonté Hynes in fine new albums.

Saving the best for last • Our best known rapper announces his retirement with a reflective farewell set.

Heart of stout • Show brewed up about the Guinness dynasty draws comparisons with Succession.

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

Saturday/rāhoroi September 20

Sunday/rātapu September 21

Monday/rāhina September 22

Tuesday/Rātū September 23

Wednesday/Rāapa September 24

Thursday/Rāpare September 25

Friday/Rāmere September 26

Ensembles with scenery • A Southern Alps music festival branches out globally.

On the nose • A breakthrough device that helps nasal breathing promises to bring more than just sinus...