News
New Zealand Listener
Reality check
A trip to Vietnam is an opportunity to reflect on what we think we know.
3 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Identity parade
The new season of My Life is Murder has guest stars from near and abroad.
1 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Might is right
Strength training is now the go-to for healthy ageing, with benefits newly revealed for the body and brain in preventing illness and injury.
10+ min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Phony war
AI-generated music can be great, but the artists whose work helped build it need to be paid.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
A woman scorned
British academic sets the record straight on an ancient Roman aristocrat, while a NZ writer reimagines her life.
4 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Scales of cruelty
For as long as I can remember, which in this case is way longer than usual, I have been a fan of dark humour.
3 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
The good egg
The more varied diet enjoyed by free-range and organic hens may deliver eggs slightly lower in cholesterol, but the nutritional benefits of any egg are more important.
3 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Renaissance men
Fascinating docudrama looks at the politics behind – and the rivalries between – the original superstars of Italian art.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Towering ivories
Born in South Korea and raised in Auckland, NZTrio pianist Somi Kim is a leading presence on concert stages at home and overseas.
4 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Fly my pretties
A diamond anniversary for the NZCT Chamber Music Contest.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Off the hook
Auckland post-punk band's songs skewer empty language on impressive sophomore album.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
A TWISS IN TIME
Sculptor Greer Twiss was still in his 20s when commissioned to create his Karangahape Rocks fountain, which was installed on the corner of Auckland's Karangahape Rd and Symonds St in 1969.
1 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Golden chalice
A popular Wairau Valley producer took bottomless inspiration from a nearby lake.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Dawn chorus
The sound of crashing glass the morning after is a New Zealand classic, a music that strikes a loud, instantly familiar chord in every city and province throughout the land – I heard all of New Zealand gather at my door last Friday morning when I tipped a box of bottles into the rubbish bin after hosting a dozen or so enthusiastic drinkers on Thursday night.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Peace at what price?
The horrific toll of the first atomic bomb drop 80 years ago is as important to remember now as then, writes Maire Leadbeater.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Back of the class
Modern ways of teaching kids are shown the door as results give the education system a very middling grade.
4 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
You can't choose your family
New stories from seasoned writers deliver taut plot turns.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Signs of intelligence
Riding on a fast train through France, I read Helen Garner's novel Monkey Grip.
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
A new reality
Is there a steeper learning curve than that scaled by the influencer Zoe Rae, who recently left Bali in high dudgeon because, \"it's not how it looked on Instagram\"?
2 min |
August 2-8, 2025
New Zealand Listener
Quest for peace
Compelling, meticulous account of the life and aspirations of the monarch who created modern Britain.
4 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Once were warriors
Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison help paddle Jason Momoa's Hawaiian war canoe.
1 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Life in transit
Airports are strange places that elicit equally unusual human behaviour.
2 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
On thin ice
The much-celebrated Antarctic Treaty is in danger as nations fail to agree on actions.
3 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Bottom's up
It’s time Aotearoa New Zealand took its rightful place at the top of the world, says Lindsay Wright.
2 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Murder, he wrote
The mad, bad, dangerous parade of alleged criminals has long been fodder for journalist Steve Braunias, and last year's Polkinghorne trial inspired a book.
8 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Presents of greatness
Come July, it is always the same: what the hell should I buy myself for my birthday?
3 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Savoury spread
Auckland food writer, stylist and chef Gretchen Lowe serves up Mediterranean-inspired meals.
4 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Old meds, new hope
The spotlight is on a 100-year- old tuberculosis vaccine for its potential to curb a variety of ills.
3 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Ardern’s missed moment
I attended Jacinda Ardern’s press conference when she stepped down as prime minister, and saw a leader who was composed to the end. But when she walked away I caught a glimpse behind the sunglasses she wore as her bodyguards shepherded her through the media scrum. I saw a person who looked burnt out and broken, which was not surprising given the attacks on her were not just political, they were personal.
3 min |
July, 26th - August, 1st
New Zealand Listener
Ride of her life
At 15, Sammie Maxwell was urged to accept hospital treatment for anorexia. Eight years later, she's on top of the mountain-biking world.
8 min |