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

Setting a match to Paris • Climate denialism is on the rise, but we must stick with the principles of the Paris Agreement, says Tim Groser.

Dog laws with no bite

The Political Cartoon

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

Bright Lines

Off the grid • Politicians’ fondness for managing the message has obscured our failures in infrastructure for years.

Last post for journalism

Mad resistance

The mules of Dunedin

Outside the school gate

What to do with poo • As if our sewage infrastructure isn’t decrepit enough, the government is lowering standards for wastewater discharged to many waterways.

Taking Ownership

Acts of resistance • Lauded journalist M Gessen, among the world’s leading writers on autocracy, is coming to Auckland.

Class action • Teach First NZ aims to fix educational inequality by placing high-achieving non-teachers in low-decile schools. But is it a game changer or a well-meaning Band-Aid?

Spirited away • Experiences of haunting cross time, place and culture. A Kiwi neuroscientist has conjured a rational theory on ghostly encounters.

Come Again • Hauntings are a matter of personal relationships, a researcher finds.

Out of the frame • What stories do art works from colonial times tell? A new book finds interpreting these images is far from straightforward.

Short cuts

Sex & stilettoes • A racy genre of the 1980s gets a thorough academic appraisal, alongside the decade itself.

By the book • Cop-turned-novelist produces a handbook on police procedures out of frustration over common crime-writer mistakes.

Vaulting ambition • Shakespeare’s Macbeth is reimagined by the Royal NZ Ballet as a dance piece set in modern times, where medieval Scottish nobles and witches become politicians and influencers.

Divine intervention • Riverdale star turned director Nat Boltt on how she came to make the first feature adapting a Joy Cowley novel in decades.

Carry on baggage • Jimmy Carr’s Downton spoof feels like it also belongs to an earlier era.

A wahine unmoored • Thrilling horror about a Māori woman’s utu in Victorian England.

Blues in the blood • Fresh from vampire film Sinners, Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram heads our way.

After he was Fab • Documentary captures Paul McCartney’s shaky start to his solo era.

Getting along fine • Time spent with these offbeat heroes of suburban Dublin won’t be wasted.

Tv Picks of the week

Tv Films

Saturday/Rāhoroi February 28

Sunday/Rātapu March 1

Monday/Rāhina March 2

Tuesday/Rātū March 3

Wednesday/Rāapa March 4

Thursday/Rāpare March 5

Friday/Rāmere March 6

Radio February 28 – March 6

Inspired by legend • Composer’s rendering of a Māori love story is revisited in a concert of greats.

Too much of a good thing • Serious side effects can result from excessive vitamin consumption.

Nutrition bites

Nice rice • MasterChef UK guest judge Ping Coombes presents Malaysian-influenced dishes that celebrate a kitchen staple.

Vive la différence • Wines made from some of the country’s rarer grape varieties are well worth seeking out.

Midlife misery • Menopause can bring devastating symptoms for women but the good news is their partners can help.

The cloud goes orbital • We should all hope Elon Musk’s wacky plan for data centres in space works.

Command Performance

Spring chickens