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.

WE REMEMBER

NEW ZEALAND LISTENER

Fernleaves on the battlefield • Cost-cutting threatens an invaluable guide to sites where New Zealanders fought and died in World War I, writes Christopher Pugsley.

Wellington will judge

THE POLITICAL CARTOON

Deal or no deal • Instead of generating growth, our biggest city is shackled by a government that refuses to devolve power.

Death and dishonour

Taking one for the team

Erasing the silence

Farce club

In some foreign field • A digital archive is building a picture of thousands of Kiwi war casualties buried in distant graves or whose bodies were never recovered. Here are some of their stories.

No place like home • In the 1940s and 50s, about 5000 Europeans displaced by war came to New Zealand. The Untold Stories Project sheds light on their experiences.

A retirement filled with purpose and passion • Peter tells Judy Bailey how a reverse mortgage has enriched his life.

Dad’s war • For those who came back from WWII, the world would never be quite the same. Nor, necessarily, would they fit into it.

Between the lines • A letter to the memory of my grandfather, who died in 1969.

The soldiers’ tale • Who was Wilhelm Dürkop, and how did the German soldier’s diary end up in a cake tin near Patumāhoe?

Landscape interrupted • A burgeoning heritage of stately gardens was devastated by World War I and its call-up of able-bodied men, including hundreds of gardeners.

Truth or myth? • Author and illustrator BoB kErr explains how he turned his uncle Ron’s wartime adventures into a graphic novel.

Coming into conflict • Mark Broatch surveys new and forthcoming military and war books.

Picture this life • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time author’s memoir is a tumult of impressions, insights and ‘Good god!’ moments.

Trade and exchange • When the author of a book and its subject each want something the other has, who is doing the exploiting?

BESTSELLERS

The mana of Manahi • A rousing docudrama about a Māori Battalion legend features heroism, injustice and a well-connected cook.

Earth to earth • An exchange of soil for an All Black captain who died at Passchendaele will screen on Anzac Day.

Sola power • Andrew Spraggon’s latest delivers slinky grooves begging to be remixed.

Rebel’s ballroom blitz • Oz comedy star’s directorial debut is a musical delight despite its legal troubles.

Bland bombshell • Small-screen execution fails to meet big-screen ambitions of heist thriller.

Spies like us • In New Zealand Spy, James Bond meets Flight of the Conchords with a dash of mid-century kitsch.

Take a bow • Rare period gems feature in NZ Barok’s Italian season opener.

Recipe for success • Taking control of salt levels can lead to baking mastery and better heart health.

Nutrition bites

Dip & drizzle • Rhiannon Baldock has built her reputation on no-nonsense recipes for beginner cooks. been used, then set aside, keeping warm. Make the dip by stirring together the yoghurt, garlic and hot sauce, then season to taste with salt and pepper.

Fine wining • How to reduce your wine list anxiety when eating out.

Coercive care • Compulsory orders and the use of seclusion in mental healthcare remain controversial, and Māori are disproportionately affected.

MacBook Neo spells trouble for PCs • Apple’s budget laptop threatens to take another bite out of the Windows market.

SAVIOUR COMPLEX

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