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New Zealand Listener
The whenua calls
A spotlight on traditional gardening practices that have all but fallen by the wayside.
1 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Hiding in plain sight
Joyce Carol Oates dishes up an engrossingly gross whodunnit about the timely murder of a despicable teacher.
3 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Bringing down the curtain
The once outspoken and often outrageous Tom Scott declares his new album is his most personal - and might well be his last.
6 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Fatimas DIY
Kirsty Senior and Sophie Gilmour of Auckland's Fatimas fame bring exotic Middle East flavours to all with their new book.
4 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Snap to it
There are some risks with homemade seeded crackers: here's how to keep the goodness in and the bad stuff out.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Stats all, folks
Our worship of data can skew outcomes in everything from workplace, sport and lifestyle decisions to how countries are run, writes GREG BRUCE.
10 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Nostalgic for normalcy
You learn all kinds of new stuff when you have a front-row seat to creeping authoritarianism.
3 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Dodgy attidudes
Young men have less awakened views of gender rights than their fathers.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Homecoming scene
Returning from London for a one-woman show, Kiwi actor Ellie Smith reveals the inspirations and highlights of a lifetime in theatre.
5 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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The one last song
My late brother and I lived in different cities, and we tended to have long and hectic phone conversations.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Six of the best
The spankingly rich bounty of fortuitous ripening weather is now reaching us.
1 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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ETHICAL EVOLUTION
How fund managers caught on to leveraging their pots of money for good.
3 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Out of the frame
As part of her Janet Frame Memorial Lecture on the state of literature in New Zealand, CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW dwelt on a personal battle for authenticity, excerpted here.
10+ min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Alien invaders
Stunning portraits of introduced species and their influence on our fauna over two centuries.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Scanning for scams
A new app tackles the fraud epidemic infecting our digital communications.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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The bonkers generation
Screaming, boisterous children are the new norm in schools and teachers have grave fears for our future.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Ready to govern? Yeah, nah
A series of blunders has done nothing to convince voters that Te Pāti Māori is a credible option - and that's bad news for Labour.
4 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Neighbour at war
Psycho has left the building. I write in the front room of my home in the desirable postcode of 1011 and look out over the fence to an empty house. Crown Removals came and took him away.
3 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Age and mercy
Poetic takes on the human condition - both mental and physical - range from affectionate to bracing.
3 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Judgment day
We are hugely underestimating the nature of AI, and human extinction is a serious possibility, say two tech researchers.
4 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Good money gone bad
KiwiSaver and other fund managers may aim to avoid fuelling hate, war and environmental loss but responsible investing is proving something of a minefield.
9 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Scents and sensibilities
It's easy to mock when people in the grip of identity crises try ludicrously corny comforts like Harley-Davidsons, Botox and obsessive marathon running. It turns out countries' identity crises can be no less absurd.
2 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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Method in madness
Injustice, hatred and violence are bound together in a vivid account of global terrorism through the 1970s.
4 min |
October 25-31, 2025
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What's in a label?
Why finally getting a health diagnosis can bring relief – but a so uncertainty.
2 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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TV Films
The big movies on TV this week
2 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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History lessons
For his second novel, Airana Ngarewa draws from his own whakapapa to tell the story of a survivor of Tītokowaru's war.
4 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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Sam's summons
Sam Neill gathered a Kiwi-heavy cast for his third season of courtroom drama The Twelve, set in Western Australia.
3 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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Who's the moss?
\"Are you crazy?” This is what Bob is wondering. He has written to me to explain a few things, some of it about moss, though mostly about his opinion of me. It seems that, at least in Bob’s view, I am a pitiable idiot who is unworthy to exist in the same beautiful world as moss.
2 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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Clever and crammed
Trent Dalton's latest has truth, lies and delusion at its heart.
3 min |
October 4-10, 2025
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And your bird can sing
Once half of The Chicks, Suzanne Lynch marks 60 years in the music biz with a memoir that touches on the big names she's backed.
6 min |