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

Roadside drug testing – pot luck? • Everyone wants safer roads, but lawful medical cannabis patients are at risk from blunt-force drug testing, writes GRAHAM GULBRANSEN.

Watch the horses

“Quote Marks”

10 Quick Questions

Creative words competition

Foreign influence • Political parties are gravitating towards tightening up immigration, despite the dearth of people wanting to move here.

Patriot games

Farewell, Philip

Changing the trajectory

In praise of a national monument

Veto to stalemate

Pills & frills • We’re swamped with wellness products and advice from a largely unregulated industry whose ‘evidence’ tends to dissolve, says a UK doctor turned broadcaster.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST • Demand for a form of collagen marketed as elite is seeing donkey populations decimated.

FOLLOW THE MONEY • In this edited extract, Xand van Tulleken highlights the conflict of interest behind the turmeric fad.

Chippy from the block • In the first in the Listener’s pre-election leader profiles, Labour’s Chris Hipkins explains his vision for NZ, and how we can learn from Upper Hutt’s example.

Night mayor of K Road • DJ and creator of dance parties for the young, queer, brown crowd, Shaquille Wasasala is honing her skills to nurture urban spaces.

Lost and found • A narrow escape as a student led JOHN SUMMERS to write a book about trampers who go missing and the people determined to find them.

Birds on the brain • Bestselling naturalist Robert Vennell’s latest book offers tips on transporting huia, hypnotising ruru and training tūī to swear.

Field work • Impressive account blends academic rigour and journalistic storytelling to reveal the globe’s hidden rural underclass.

No escape • From Malaysian beach breaks to rural America via LA, peril lies at every turn in the latest crime thrillers.

Rolling in it • A cast of loathsome rich folk in a high-rise and an achingly tender story of unlikely love amid tragedy.

Short cuts

Kindred spirits • Modern ghost stories draw inspiration from tales of spectres past.

BESTSELLERS

Homecoming scene • A small Wellington musical theatre company has reeled in a Broadway star through her family connection to Aotearoa.

A tsar is born • French auteur Olivier Assayas points his camera at Vladimir Putin and asks: how the hell did that happen?

Heavy duty

Beast wars

Stand by me

Her evil ways

TV Picks of the week

Up for debate • Your guide to news outlets’ election campaign specials ahead of voting day on November 7.

TV Films

Bowing to demand • Teen cellist Christine Jeon is a rising star with her sights set on London.

All good • Perfectly balanced, delicious recipes from UK nutritionist Dominique Ludwig.

Terms of endearment • I’m not a wine snob, but I may be a wine nerd. Or perhaps a wine geek.

Wine of the week

Savoury and healthy • Nutritional yeast is much more than a vegan alternative to cheese; the clue is in the name.

One-way mirror • We need affirmative action policies in doctor training to build a better workforce.

Know when to fold ’em • Apple arrives last, in lavish style, but with no plans to democratise the folding phone format.

KEEPING THE FAITH

Bending the knee