Health
It’s fast, potentially fatal, easy to miss and on the rise. Why you need to know the signs of sepsis
Sepsis is increasing worldwide, but our health bureaucracy has been slow to respond.
Politics
Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
Listener’s Songs of the Week: New tracks by Purple Pilgrims, Dictaphone Blues, Rubi Du and more
New and intriguing tracks picked by writers at the NZ Listener.
Greg Dixon: Who won the battle of election night TV coverage?
Over five drawn out hours, it dawned on NZers what we'd just done to ourselves.
Leah McFall: Putting the ‘no’ in November
Quiet quit the extra responsibilities between now and Christmas Eve.
Curious worlds: Four new books by acclaimed YA authors
Dystopian themes cross over and reverberate in Ann Packer's top picks.
Danyl McLauchlan: 30 years of drifting off course under MMP demands future governments keep a surer hand on the steering
All governments make bad decisions but in the MMP Drift era mistakes were rarely reversed.
Opinion
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Duncan Garner: How I undercut the supermarkets on meat
Maybe the answer isn’t to complain about the price of food - it’s to do something about it
Russell Brown: Halloween horror show
Auckland’s K Rd was a much-needed explosion of colour and goodwill.
Roll up, roll up - it's the 2026 Election Advertising Awards
Paul Catmur drags himself off the mat for a look at this election’s winners and losers.
New Zealand
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Keep us online: Four young Kiwis make the case against blanket social media bans
From mental health advocacy to political organising, what young Kiwis gain online.
The Listener weekly quiz: November 4
Test your general knowledge with the Listener's weekly quiz.
Whanganui photographer Richard Wotton captures the people and places of heartland NZ
Historic Kiwi architecture and portraiture photography is front and centre in new book.
Business & Finance
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The AI-powered newcomer taking on Adobe and Microsoft
ArtCraft have replicated the tech giants’ software with one additional perk – it's free.
Peter Griffin: The alarming AI news from Silicon Valley that filled me with dread
Gung-ho tech bros dismissing warnings about AI are putting humanity at risk.
Thinking of investing in watches and jewellery? Why you should start by slowing down
Financial returns are only part of the picture when we invest in wearables.
Health
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Bloody clever: Kiwi surgeon’s invention to reconnect arteries is on the cusp of approval
The device is teetering on widespread use in the US after 100% success rate during trials.
‘I was having up to 1500 spasms a day’: What it’s like to live with functional neurological disorder
The little-known condition that may affect more NZers than Parkinson's disease and MS.
Is the Mediterranean diet the secret to happiness?
Growing research suggests Mediterranean and other healthy diets improve mental health.
Life
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Mint Cakery’s Michelle Morfett serves up popular sweet treats
Create a combination of afternoon delights from Michele's latest cookbook Sweet Stuff.
The Listener’s first wine columnist had plenty to say about the quality of our wines in the 1960s
The archives of the Listeners first three decades have been published on Papers Past.
Pickled pink: Why playing pickleball makes you happy
New games proving popular in Aotearoa show benefits for the body and brain.
Culture
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The world’s leading interpreter of Saint-Saëns brings the Egyptian concerto to NZ
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! UK piano great joins NZSO for two NZ performances.
Squeezed spaces: Potentially crippling cost-cuts threaten some of NZ's best regional art spaces
Some of our most important art galleries face tough futures
Taonga puoro woven into a Haydn masterpiece helps ‘decolonise’ the orchestral work
Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ is a cross-cultural collaboration.
Entertainment
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The Bigger Picture: Remembering Sir Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart was lauded for his Shakespeare and sci-fi.
John Malkovich gallops away with CIA black comedy Wild Horse Nine
Latest from director Martin McDonagh has echoes of his previous films like In Bruges.
Listener’s November Viewing Guide: New seasons of The Gilded Age, Black Doves, The Rings of Power, Rivals, and more
What's new and interesting on broadcast and streaming tv this month and where to find it.
Books
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Top 10 best selling New Zealand books: November 7
The local books Kiwis have been buying this week.
Book of the day: The Hill by Harriet Clark
Clark's novel attempts to make sense of the world through punishment, family & duty.
Crime
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To the little girl injured in Myers Park, I am so very, very sorry
An attack on a child in Myers Park in central Auckland has shocked a city.
As banks, telcos & watchdogs unite to thwart scams, crims are switching platforms – increasingly with the help of AI
Each year, online scams impact up to 500,000 Kiwis who lose billions.
The tawdry indecent assault court case against ex-Wallabies coach Alan Jones unfolds
Will Alan “the Parrot” Jones’s wings finally be clipped?
Nowhere to hide: A US court ruling exposes the unsettling reach of China’s surveillance tactics
Should companies be allowed to sell technology to repressive regimes abroad?
World
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Scars of war: The trauma borne by Gaza’s children
Excepting medical evacuees allowed into Egypt, life is little better for Gaza's children.
Anna Fifield: Trump’s weakness for dictators might soon land him in hot water
Trump’s need for autocratic adulation has become a strategic vulnerability.
How silly and stupid are Trump’s motivations, yet how devastatingly real their consequences
Everywhere you turn in the US capital, there is evidence of the President’s hubris.
The Germans choosing not to learn from the past
Many Germans are failing to draw moral lessons from their own history.
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A cleverly added extension modernises this Wellington heritage villa
A young family cleverly added a modern extension to this heritage Wellington villa
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Te Papa’s new experience is at the cutting edge of technology and immersive art practice.