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New Zealand Listener
A different tune
The man who helped turn NZ Opera's fortunes around tells ELISABETH EASTHER opera can be funny, moving and disconcerting
5 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
Courting Nanny State
Advocating five-minute showers to offset the rising cost of living invites a label the government won't be wanting to wear
5 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
All aglitter
When Martin Amis moved from W London to Brooklyn, his American wife made one thing clear: the greatest obstacle they would face \"the most time-consuming and labour-intensive, the most tediously labyrinthine and the most extortionate\" would be healthcare
2 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
Outfoxing the squirrels
In our - mostly laudable - doting on animals, we seldom stop to wonder whether labradors truly appreciate being made to wear bandannas or whether poodle-crosses object to all being called either Ruby or Bella
2 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
Untouchable swagger
I had dinner at the end of last month with an old friend, the writer Geoff Dyer, and we spent a good chunk of it talking about Martin Amis, who recently died in Florida at 73
2 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
All over the place
Should we return to using some of the country's original Māori place names? JULES OLDER puts the case for change
3 min |
June 10-16 2023
New Zealand Listener
Fresh off the boat
A BBC series about post-war UK migrants down under steers a curious course
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Platforms for change
Wellington’s Kia Mau contemporary indigenous arts festival has become an agenda-setter for other arts events.
4 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Hail to the Chief
How Matu Ngaropo has survived and thrived as George Washington in the musical phenomenon Hamilton.
4 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
History in the making
Bustling novel packs in 100 years of life and action in NZ and abroad.
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Death takes a toll
A woman who comforts the dying struggles to connect with the living.
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
A wing & a prayer
A child convict crosses boundaries amid the birth throes of colonial Auckland.
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
The city as a stage
A young acting troupe fights to stay alive in a fantastical Elizabethan London.
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Out of the shadows
How two spooks and a chip shop owner helped broker peace in Northern Ireland.
4 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Going viral
An engaging examination of microbial diseases and their far-reaching impacts on human history.
3 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Mission control
The need to regulate artificial intelligence is becoming urgent and Europe is well out in front on this.
3 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Mental block
Our vulnerabilities to disease and death can provoke reactions of “Eww!”
2 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Tried & true
Greek grandmothers take food writer Anastasia Miari into their homes and share their time-perfected recipes.
5 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Kevin Ireland 1933-2023
Graeme Lay remembers his long-time friend and colleague Kevin Ireland, writer, poet, translator and wit.
6 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
'Nowhere else to go'
In 2012, Max Rashbrooke spent three weeks living in a Wellington boarding house, writing about the experience for the Listener. The place he chose, Malcolm’s, has since closed and Healthy Homes legislation has come into effect mandating insulation and heating standards for all residential properties including boarding houses and hostels. We are republishing Rashbrooke’s story from 2012 in light of the Loafers Lodge fire that killed at least five people on May 16. Loafers Lodge is not Malcolm’s, but it also housed a community of vulnerable people. A decade on, Rashbrooke’s experience still resonates
9 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
State of inertia
It’s the time of the Great Centrist Drift, writes Danyl McLauchlan, an era of “lost opportunities and gradual failure driven not by ideology but a lack of it”.
10+ min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Arts & minds
Pressure on students to qualify for careers has seen the BA degree take a battering – but the results may not be as intended.
10+ min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Matters of the heart
Igor Felippe’s groundbreaking research into blood pressure has meant sacrifices and challenges
5 min |
June 3-9 2023
New Zealand Listener
Bloom of youth
The director of Oscar-nominated coming-of-age drama Close talks about how his own adolescence inspired the film.
5 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
Hostile territory:
Single women trying to forge new lives are at the heart of two trans-Tasman crime debuts.
3 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
Home truths
The harrowing history of a Jewish town continues to haunt modern Ukraine.
2 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
A saint for the ages
Finely woven stories spanning a thousand years revisit the eventful afterlife of an English bishop.
2 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
Running her race
A young woman’s athletic talent leads her through obstacles in sport and life.
2 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
Flipping the script
A sketch writer’s dig at double standards gets complicated.
2 min |
May 20-26 2023
New Zealand Listener
Double trouble
Deborah Levy returns with another atmospheric novel, about a concert pianist who loses her way.
2 min |