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.

Masthead

Have van, will hīkoi • For too long, the health system has been built from the top down, and look where that’s got us. It’s time for a bottom-up approach, says Glenn Colquhoun.

Vietnam revisited

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Blowing up trade • Expanding the Trans-Pacific partnership may offer a way out of Donald Trump’s global tariffwar.

Minorities rule

Treasures shared

Hands off

Tikanga delayed

Entitled ignorance

Ultimate survivor • Overwhelmed by what’s going on in the world? From breaking things into chunks to sharing with a friend, psychologists offer helpful tips for navigating turbulent times. BY DIONNE CHRISTIAN

Balancing Act • Diet , exercise, sleep and cont act with friends and family are foundations for coping.

The Kids Are Alright? • The social media blowtorch is harshest on our young. It’s vital that we find ways to keep communication channels open.

Boys’ Talk

Dining in the dark • Eating habits have changed markedly in the past 20 years but neither health experts nor food manufacturers can tell us whether this is any better – or worse – for our health.

Snacks On Demand • Information is sparse but several clues suggest our diets fall short of the optimum.

Breaking the mould • A ‘little face-paint candy shop’ has morphed into a global business supplying lifelike body parts for hospitals and armies to train staff.

Making a connection • An interview with the very complicated, very funny and very messy Marlon Williams walks you to some very peculiar places.

Crushed to pieces • A novel that appears to be about romantic fixations morphs into a veiled account of the writer’s marriage break-up.

After the wave • A natural disaster reveals the fault-lines in a small community.

Learning your letters • Authorsʼ personal accounts of learning to love the written word.

Short cuts

The Music Of The Day • The ebb and flow of time becomes the main focus in this memorable collection of stories.

How The West Was Spun • The notion that the ‘civilised West’ began with the Greeks and Romans ignores millennia of earlier cultural entanglements.

In Love And War • How Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel became an acclaimed television series by one of Australia’s fiercest film-makers.

Picking Up Speed • US bluegrass star Billy Strings is riding his success all the way to NZ.

All alone • Songwriters step away from their bands with tales of love lost and found.

New on the blocks • A spin-off from the popular Minecraft game ticks all the boxes.

Magical surrealism • Discovery of a lavender-blooded unicorn gives rise to horror & hilarity.

Hello kitties • Japanese doc gives paws for thought.

Tv Picks of the week

Tv Films

Saturday/Rāhoroi April 19

Sunday/Rātapu April 20

Monday/Rāhina April 21

Tuesday/Rātū April 22

Wednesday/Rāapa April 23

Thursday/Rāpare April 24

Friday/Rāmere April 25

The chosen one • A top honour for conductor Reuben Brown, whose future looks bright.

The doctor will see you for longer • Private clinics that aim to help us before chronic diseases set in are emerging – for those who can afford them.

Well preserved • Alex Elliott-Howery, co-founder of Sydney food community Cornersmith, has 80 classic recipes for pickles, chutneys and relishes.

A recipe for success • Globally, the wine industry is in...