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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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The sad story of DEPRESSION • Since the 1980s, depression has become an increasingly widely diagnosed disorder. It is now one of the leading forms of disability worldwide. Solomon Lewis explores the history of depression to ask whether the contemporary tendency to treat depression primarily as a biological deficit rather than a complex human experience of psychological suffering hinders our ability to understand and address this epidemic.

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MIND shift • Ketamine is changing the lives of depression sufferers for whom nothing else has worked, but it is only getting to a fraction of those it could help. New Zealand researchers are at the forefront of a push to make it more available.

Suits • A bipolar father’s ill-conceived enthusiasms and the lows that rapidly followed them provided an unacknowledged backdrop to family life. But how do we untangle where personality ends and mental illness begins?

LOST PROPERTY The battle over Sticky Forest • On a hilltop in Wānaka surrounded by one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the country sits 50 hectares of douglas fir and radiata pine. The block was given to the descendents of 50 Māori left landless by a duplicitous Crown purchase. One hundred-and-seventy years later, the heirs to this block are finally set to take ownership. For the Wānaka community, it’s a new grievance in the making.

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A state of denial • The coalition government is scrapping a commitment to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in child-welfare legislation, but the past will not be erased. As Aaron Smale reports, history has been tragically repeated in the state’s failed approach to Māori children in its care.

FAKE friends • Bots designed to become treasured companions can’t really wish us well. They can’t wish us anything.

Counting change • Liv Lewis-Long from Simplicity looks at how KiwiSaver policy changes past, present, and future have (and might) impact our collective future wealth.

A flirtation in punctuation • Just because our texts sound like two insufferable people sparring in an English tutorial doesn’t mean they’re not fun.

State of The National • The National have returned after the pandemic and personal struggles with two new albums in 2023, as well a renewed engagement with their backlist. Ahead of their New Zealand tour, Emily Perkins talks to bass player Scott Devendorf.

My first ever…CONCERT • For a 13-year-old, the roar of the crowd for a yellow-haired David Bowie at Western Springs 40 years ago was a first taste of something special.

SAVE THE DATE

Frozen storms • Painter Georgie Hill conjures up real and imagined visions of cosmic meteorology, her distinctive technique creating patterns of movement and rhythm, tension and release.

Exhibitionism • So many artists racking up massive student debt, but where can you go to see what they’ve made of it? Here are the best galleries to cool down in over the dog days of summer.

DARE TO HOPE • This Black Caps team have racked up achievements earlier generations could only dream of, but have yet to deliver the test-cricket result their fans crave most. Time to...