New Zealand Listener Magazine - April 01-07 2023
New Zealand Listener Magazine - April 01-07 2023
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In this issue
Murder or Mercy?
The shock revelation from a Kiwi scientist
A walking target
I'd happily share a road filled with idiots if it meant there were fewer maniacs nearby.
3 mins
Acting the ass
As a braying donkey, Hurst happened to bear an eerie resemblance to one of our nation's current mayors.
2 mins
The online dark ages
All we can offer in our future defence is that showing off is an opioid-grade addiction, as is putting others down.
2 mins
Battle of the books
Another friend had his first book published. He is taking his family to McDonald's to spend the royalties.
3 mins
Sight for sore eyes
Former police minister Stuart Nash may be looking uncomfortable right now, but his boss is also facing a case of bad optics.
4 mins
Dying for change
Sean Davison is already well known for his involvement in four assisted suicides. But there have been others, too, he tells CHRIS COOKE, as he prepares to take on a new role that will again thrust him into the international spotlight.
10+ mins
True to his roots
Renowned plantsman Gordon Collier has always been unafraid to break the rules of traditional landscaping.
5 mins
Civil war & peace
Shehan Karunatilaka's Booker Prize-winning novel captures a Sri Lanka in turmoil. But his writing career was sparked in a quiet corner of New Zealand.
8 mins
Southern exposure
Stewart Island is famed for its kiwi, but when GLENN WOOD visits, it's the human drama that steals the show.
4 mins
Biting deep
Genes play a significant role in whether people develop an eating disorder.
4 mins
What comes naturally
Rather than superfoods, a diet rich in foods should a variety of unprocessed give us all the nutrients we need.
4 mins
It's easy being green
London-based nutrition expert AMELIA FREER believes healthy eating needn't involve complicated recipes.
3 mins
Easily swayed
The placebo and nocebo effects are well known in healthcare but they happen in psychological experiments, too.
3 mins
Dazzled to death
An Auckland doctoral student is exposing the threat to our seabirds posed by bright lights.
3 mins
Under the skin
Siblings gather for their comatose mum in this sharp debut.
2 mins
That summer
A debut novel captures the thrill of first love and the melancholy of its departure.
3 mins
Once upon a cloud
The environment, the world of Totoro, and a chicken keeper losing her memory feature in new picture books.
2 mins
Islands of hope
A pioneer in offshore conservation work shows how ecological decline can be reversed.
2 mins
Heat seeker
How screenwriter Scott Z Burns turned the lessons from his previous An Inconvenient Truth and Contagion into the star-studded climate-crisis drama Extrapolations.
4 mins
Family guy
Celebrated Japanese film-maker Hirokazu Kore-eda talks about taking his deft touch with parenthood dramas to South Korea for his latest.
5 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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