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.

New Zealand Listener

Making it • The average NZ apprentice is 26, writes RUTH COOPER. What if we could set young people on this career path earlier?

Mum and Dad in the house

10 Quick Questions

“Quote Marks”

Bright Lines

A whole lotta gas • The ease with which parties flip policies to fit a billboard don’t bode well for post-election trust.

People power

In service to the king

Coloured thinking

Down with daylight saving

Courting rituals

The good, the bad & the ugly • In the first of two reports, DANYL McLAUCHLAN examines parties’ answers to the battleground issues worrying voters this election – and gives a verdict on each.

Failure to launch • The leaders of Te Pāti Māori did not take up an invitation to sit down with the Listener for our series on parliamentary leaders. Here, we consider its prospects in light of its performance this term.

On the trail mix • The combined force of Taranaki’s art and garden festivals is back for its annual spring outing, with a permaculture gardener, sustainability guru and artist who makes works out of trash helping to draw the crowds.

Leaps of faith • He was born into poverty, snatched from his family and hated ballet. Then Li Cunxin became one of the world’s most famous dancers.

Sliding scales • A former piano prodigy settled in rural America is forced to confront all she’s left behind in Pulitzer winner’s immersive examination of love, passion, class and regret.

BESTSELLERS

Tried and true • A compelling reflection on some of our most notorious legal cases and what they say about New Zealand.

Thread head • Biography of one of our most important artists is thought provoking, but not definitive.

Farewell to ignorance

Something sinister

BESTSELLERS

In it for the long haul

Kind of new

Bringing it to the bandstand • This month’s Wellington Jazz Festival arrives just as the local exponents of the genre are having a moment.

Taking five • RNZ’s king of swing has spent a decade urging listeners to give jazz a chance.

Troubled waters • Tom Cruise goes for broke, but Digger won’t strike Oscars gold.

Latta’s last hurrah • Psychologist Nigel Latta’s bestselling final book has been televised, with the help of family, friends and celebrities.

TV Films

Finely woven • Composer Riki Gooch Pirihi and writer Tina Makereti improvise with chamber music.

Rock and a hard place

Nutrition bites

Garden fresh

Good things take time

Bits and bobs

Race to what end?

URSA MAJOR

Where the art is