New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener is the country’s most respected general interest magazine, bringing you a wide variety of news, stories, columns, reviews, plus TV listings, every week.

New Zealand Listener

Ties that blind • Rather than the collar-and-tie uniform, give men smarter, gender-neutral clothing options, argues BEN WALLACE.

Vote for Tīrau

Quips&Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Anger is not a plan

What the doctor ordered

Eurovision jam

Funny haha • Politicians who are still getting around on training wheels should leave the joke-telling to more seasoned MPs.

Making waves • Environmentalist and business operator Bianca Ranson talks to ELISABETH EASTHER about how immersing people in nature can be life changing.

High hopes • From LSD microdoses to MDMA, New Zealand researchers are exploring the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat mental illness.

Trials & tribulations • New Zealand is a testing ground for psychedelic therapies despite the researchers running up against red tape.

Monsters from the id • The technology is here to make our lives easier, but the old prejudices are emerging in turbo-charged form.

Eyes on the spies • A new review recommends diluting the PM’s oversight of NZ’s intelligence agencies but Chris Hipkins remains unconvinced.

Southside stories • South Auckland has long been stigmatised. Local identity COLLEEN BROWN talks to community leaders working to change the narrative.

Love is not enough • It’s time to reconsider what keeping furry friends as pets is doing to the animals – as well as the environment, write PETER SINGER and AGATA SAGAN in this third and final essay.

Give a doc a bone • Just as it is helpful for doctors to calculate patients’ heart age and lung age, researchers are suggesting it’s also useful to know skeletal age.

HEALTH BRIEFS

What’s your poison? • Alcohol may relieve pain, relax us and even make us euphoric, but its harmful effects outweigh its allure.

NUTRITION BITES

No substitute • Sydney chef and cooking-show host Helen Tzouganatos brings a Mediterranean flavour to gluten-free.

A bit of magic • Our most popular red wine often sells for $40 plus, but here are some recommendations that are more affordable at $30 or under.

Winter of our discontent • Out-of-sync circadian rhythms may help explain a seasonal form of depression.

Slip watch • Data from our ocean floor is building knowledge of our biggest fault line.

Heart’s content • Transferring one of Jane Austen’s iconic English period romances to modern-day New York works like a charm.

Debating difference • A bold new work calls for a fundamental rethink of the feminist project.

Uneasy allies • Why the relationship between Russia and China is so important to the world.

BESTSELLERS

Culture & nature • Top new poetry books include a best-of James K Baxter.

Great shakes • Author returns with audacious truth-grounded premise.

DIVERSIONS

Home to roost • Scottish star Robert Carlyle follows his Trainspotting sequel with a return to his other early career-defining character in a TV version of The Full Monty.

Unsung hero • Since starting out in punk era Dunedin, Doug Hood was the man who wired together much of the country’s left-field bands and music business.

Private rooms • Mystery and mood feature on two new local albums.

Flash of genius • Ezra Miller does a terrific double act in a speed-read for DC noobs.

Awash with heat • An unusual love story also pleads for tolerance.

Reboot your expectations • Two very different BBC Dickens dramas deliver new takes on familiar...