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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Invisible men • For their own sake and others’, men and boys must reimagine masculinity, says Victor MacGill.

Out of sight

The Political Cartoon

“Quote Marks”

Bright Lines

10 Quick Questions

Eye of the crocodile • Populist Winston Peters may find himself in dangerous waters as Kiwi workers wake up to his party’s few achievements.

Not your grandmother’s America

A summer in sonnets

Sovereignty under threat

Ode to summer

Ideological classroom • Erica Stanford says her sweeping education changes are about giving children equal opportunity. Critics see them as a dangerous political experiment.

Good neighbours • When natural disasters strike, we can’t rely on emergency services coming to rescue us. Locals must be ready to help themselves.

Where does it hurt? • Among the indignities of the Manage My Health data hack is the way patients are being treated by the company, GP practices and the government.

A star is gone • When Dunedin’s Star Fountain was dismantled in 1989, residents were assured it would find a new home. Then it disappeared.

Page to pixels • From literary classics to sci-fi romps to romcoms, 2026 is bursting with book-to-film adaptations.

Utopia eludes • Book argues that the “blank slate” ideas of the left can’t compete with the implacable rules of human nature.

Short cuts

Reaching for the sky • A World War II hero receives the biography her achievements and bravery deserve.

Bestsellers

Of frogs and thieves • Ann Packer rounds up a midsummer miscellany of notable new books for younger people.

Bestsellers

Talent for trouble • Fresh from his latest success at the Golden Globes, actor Wagner Moura explains why he can’t turn his back on Brazilian politics.

French dispatch • Homage to 1960 Godard classic puts viewers in the frame.

Freedom of choice • Moral-dilemma movie from a film-maker in exile.

Choir stalled • Despite starry names, movie fails to hit the high notes.

Temple of terror • Danny Boyle’s zombie saga gets better and bloodier.

Fade to black • Bad Seed and Magazine man goes noir.

Revisited • Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley

Bringing it all back home • The third series of Origins returns to Aotearoa.

Picks of the week

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

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Radio

Prelude to 2026 • The best of what our orchestras are offering for their concert seasons.

Smoke alarm • Smoking foods can raise cancer risks, but there are ways to snuff out most ill effects.

Summer breeze • Coastal Australian home cooking finds a following wind in Donna Hay’s latest.

Perfumed, pink & popular • Once considered lolly water for summer, rosé is now a serious year-round drink.

Road to rage • Was Renee Good’s death the result of senseless violence, or the just outcome of domestic terrorism?

Just Google it • Apple has quietly admitted it can’t win a critical technology race.

To Cap It Off

A winter’s tale?