New Zealand Listener Magazine - May 11 - 17, 2024
New Zealand Listener Magazine - May 11 - 17, 2024
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In this issue
Mother's Day
Hunger games
Off your bike
The rest is history
Rest - both sleep and non-sleep - is essential to help our overstressed bodies and minds repair themselves. But many of us remain in a constant state of 'fight, flight or freeze'.
7 mins
Right and power
Israel is profiting financially and extending its global technological influence in response to the October 7 massacre, says investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein.
6 mins
Dolphins be damned
Is SailGP's future in this country really under threat because of an at-risk marine mammal?
9 mins
Orwellian irony
Our thinking about one of the 20th century's best-known writers is being challenged by the 'smelly little truths' Anna Funder uncovered about George Orwell's marriage.
8 mins
The alchemist
Talent and a little magic have taken state-house kid Moses Mackay to the heights of Italian opera. He's coming back to sprinkle some of his gold dust around.
8 mins
Good Lord, he was scandalous
Lord Byron still fascinates 200 years after his death, but more for his bohemian lifestyle than his poetry.
4 mins
Stars in their eyes
Debut novel a heady mix of grief, astronomy and love.
2 mins
Dark matter
Ngaio Marsh-style whodunnit set among academia attached to the Mt John Observatory.
2 mins
Mirren's mirror on Meir
Dame Helen talks about playing Golda Meir, Israel's iron lady, during a pivotal chapter in the controversial politician's long career.
5 mins
Game, set and match
Love, sex and great tennis take centre court in this highly charged drama.
2 mins
Silence is golden
Dog and robot tale a five-star gem.
1 min
Still screaming
Pearl Jam's 12th album proves the senior statesmen have what it takes after 33 years.
2 mins
Taylored to startle
Swifties flocked to their idol's latest release in their millions. Awaiting them was Taylor at her most raw and brave.
2 mins
Morning songs
On a recent early and glorious Saturday morning - it was 4°C outside I let the complaining chickens out. Chickens never stop complaining.
2 mins
Upwardly mobile
Climate-friendly e-scooters are proliferating but there are stumbling blocks for users and non-users.
2 mins
A potent brew
There's a correlation between moderate coffee drinking and reduced risk of colorectal cancer - but evidence of a causal link is still percolating.
3 mins
Food saviours
A little bit of silliness lightens the mood on the serious topic of food waste.
2 mins
Ode to old masters
The Polynesian sound and Auckland's ska-punk scene are remembered in new releases.
2 mins
Weaving Welsh with waiata
Te reo meets Cymraeg in a musical project partly spearheaded by Kawiti Waetford, an opera singer with connections to Wales.
6 mins
Culture warrior
Activist and scholar Ngahuia te Awek6otuku achieved several firsts in society but had to fight many battles to get there.
4 mins
An age-old problem
Is our lifespan fixed, or might we be able to slow down or even abolish ageing? And what would we do if we could?
4 mins
When Jim becomes James
'What would white people do to a slave who had learned to read?' This impressive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn seeks to find out.
4 mins
Manhattan transfer
A Kiwi movie star led the charge for an Anzac garden atop New York's Rockefeller Centre that's still in use today.
5 mins
A Wylde life
How a West Coast mechanic who lost a leg at Gallipoli ended up living in luxury on the banks of the Thames, rubbing shoulders with artists, composers and poets.
8 mins
'That German boy'
Paul Oestreicher's Jewish family escaped the Nazis in 1938. Once here, he was ostracised for being German. How did this committed pacifist end up leading a military Anzac Day service in East Germany?
5 mins
Uncovering our past
For veteran broadcaster Cameron Bennett, navigating the origins and consequences of the New Zealand Wars has been both confronting and exhilarating.
3 mins
Friend or foe?
An ambiguous war memorial on the banks of the Waikato River raises confronting questions about what it is commemorating.
8 mins
Taonga tales
Collections of war memorabilia no longer just signify battles and bravery; they have evolved to tell us about ourselves.
9 mins
Branching out
A lexander Hamilton described the courts as the least dangerous branch of government.
2 mins
A real head banger
We owe an incalculable debt to scientists but they could have done with a crash course in tact before laying their latest, inevitably disempowering, tranche of findings on us: intermittent fasting could kill you, they now tell us in their pitiless way.
2 mins
New Zealand Listener Magazine Description:
Publisher: Are Media
Category: News
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
The New Zealand Listener is New Zealand’s highest-selling and best-read current affairs magazine. Each week the Listener brings you the latest commentary and insight from award-winning writers and columnists.
An energising read, full of witty insight and award-winning investigative journalism, this is the magazine that has been setting New Zealand’s agenda since 1939.
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