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North & South is New Zealand’s premier monthly current affairs and lifestyle magazine, specialising in long-form investigative journalism, delivered by award-winning writers and photographers. North & South also showcases New Zealand ingenuity and creativity, explores the country and profiles its people. It is a touchstone of New Zealand life.

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AROUND NGĀ MOTU PHOTOGRAPHY

Four corners Curious creatures

Sir George Fistonich: LEGACY & LOSS • He’s spent a lifetime bringing good times and good wines to the New Zealand people, and played a pivotal role in developing our wine industry, yet a disastrous set of events has seen Sir George Fistonich lose the family business he built and left him feeling betrayed and bitter. Joanne Drayton tells his story.

Peter Hubscher: A Vintner’s Tale • One of the most influential figures in the development of the New Zealand wine industry looks back on his immigrant family’s early struggles in what was a very foreign world.

Who owns our wine? • Foreign players now control a big slice of the Kiwi wine industry. Who are they, and should you think about who’s profiting when you pluck a bottle off the supermarket shelves?

Possums of the deep • A collaborative research project between iwi, environmental scientists and business interests seeks to restore kelp forests while serving the needs of international fine dining.

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BURPS & bluster

How do you solve a problem like housing? • In the perpetual housing-crisis debate, the “German model” continually crops up as something worth emulating. What might this model offer to New Zealand?

Germany and New Zealand, apples and apfelsine

BUMPER PUZZLE SPECIAL

The homicidal punt • That Wellington wind can be a killer, but in a 19th-century case the blame fell elsewhere.

Hardwired for doomsday • As a teenager, evangelical Christianity stoked science writer and historian Rebecca Priestley’s nuclear anxieties. Her new book, End Times, counterpoints her experiences in the 80s with today’s climate change debates on the West Coast.

Back in the frame • In the late 70s, an exhibition of Diane Arbus’ photographs toured Aotearoa, visiting eight galleries and drawing record crowds. Now, 44 years later, Arbus’ iconic images return to our shores.

Beyond words Elisabeth Pointo • Multimedia artist Elisabeth Pointon’s artworks hone in on fragments of speech. She modulates her slogans through scale, elegance and surprise as a way to prod at the complexities of speech and agency.

Adrienne Spratt Island artist weaves her magic • Traditional methods for making kete inspire a masterful weaver.

New hope for historic ship • Picton is home to the Edwin Fox, one of the world’s oldest surviving merchant ships. Its preservation is a never-ending task, but things are looking up for the historic ship as it receives a generous bequest, hordes of visitors check it out, and a new book puts it in the spotlight.

My first ever… in-flight romance • Love at first flight, a romance at 35,000 feet.

Inner circles, outer limits • When dogma supplants inquiry, scientific communities neglect the unknown.

Supposed persons • Poets, like other writers, can impersonate so many people.

Listen up • If you adore these new releases, why not spread a little financial love to the artists, says Victoria Spence.

Season’s eatings • Renowned Canterbury cook and caterer Tina Duncan shares her spring cooking recommendations, along with tips on how to...