Features
Illustration: Ruth Gwily
Dial a Dealer
When buying drugs is as easy as online shopping, things get
scary — fast.
By Pete McKenzie
Jimmy Neesham with Charles Barkley. Photo: Victoria Birkinshaw.
The Most Outspoken Man in Sports
Black Cap Jimmy Neesham goes from crisis to comeback.
By James Borrowdale
The living room, circa 1950. All photos: Supplied.
This Old House
In which the author investigates his newly purchased home and discovers a rich vein of New Zealand history.
By John Summers
An RSE worker from the Solomon Islands, picking Jazz apples, Hastings. Photo: Richard Brimer.
Photo Essay: Another Year
Celebrating the people who pick our produce every summer harvest.
By Richard Brimer
Four Corners
Peterson moved to Bluff in 2017. Photo: Ben Mack.
Poisoned Pine
The “underhanded” act which rid Lake Rotoiti of an invasive pest.
Cromwell, warts and all
Grappling with a divisive historic legacy.
By Thomas McLean
Got a pen?
This collector has about 20,000.
By Guy Frederick
The Wizard of Bluff
The ambitions of a “green wizard” go far beyond casting a spell over Invercargill voters to succeed longtime mayor Tim Shadbolt.
By Ben Mack
Flying Lessons
Hutton’s Shearwaters are very special birds — but also prone to crash-landing all over town.
By Helen Glenny
Culture Etc.
Ani Tawhiao-Lomas (right) with partner, Giuliano Porta and their baby, Calina Mareikura Porta. Photo: Tim D.
Tiny Plates, Big Ambitions
This Auckland company wants to decolonise your baby’s tastebuds.
By Nicola Harvey
About Town: Waimarama
Time passes and people change, but the sun still shines at this North Island beach town.
By Sarah Catherall
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
Recycling is a scam — and it’s coming back to bite us.
By Anna Rawhiti-Connell
The Grapevine
Napier winemaker Tony Bish is obsessed with chardonnay, “the king of white grapes”.
By Tobias Buck
Reviews
Paul Little on a new book on Alzheimer’s, an ambitious debut short story collection, Ockham contender Alice in Therapy Land, and more.
How I Wrote
Paul Little talks to Young Adult author James Norcliffe about his first book for grown ups.
Etc.
Puzzles
Crosswords and quiz by Graeme Wilson.
10 Things
. . . to watch, eat, hear, see and do this month.
Backstory
To evade New Zealand’s draft in both world wars, scores of conscientious objectors fled deep into the bush. There, they hid — sometimes for years.
By Scott Hamilton
The National Gallery
Featuring an amateur artist every month.
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