North & South

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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Flying Solo • At a gliding camp for teenagers in the Mackenzie Country, flying lessons also impart essential skills for life.

GREENKEEPING • The quarter-acre pavlova paradise has its downsides, and one of them is maintaining lawns. But as Matt Vance discovers, perhaps something deeply hardwired within us fuels a need for a patch of grass.

PENNED PLACES • Aotearoa’s authors ground their stories with our physical and built landscapes, from the needle of the Sky Tower to quintessential dairies, troubled harbours and small towns shadowed by mountains.

SAVE THE DATE

Between a Red Rock and a Hard Place • New Zealand’s important relationships with both China and the United States may mean sitting on the fence will get increasingly uncomfortable.

Features • In this issue, a personal and photographic essay on the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle; why is Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder such a thing; Shayne Carter’s epic classical moments and the international visitors are back — are we doing tourism better post-Covid?

A WORLD UPTURNED

WHAT’S UP WITH ADHD? • Once a condition associated with children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder diagnoses in adults have quadrupled in New Zealand in the past 10 years. Many adults have taken to social media to share their stories. But what’s behind this sudden and extraordinary rise, and should we take it at face value?

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Flight Delayed • In 2019, at the peak of an unprecedented tourism boom, visitors were wearing out the country’s welcome mat. When New Zealand’s borders closed in March 2020, the government was faced with both an industry in freefall and a blank canvas for change. As international visitors return, has tourism really been reimagined?

Immortal Bangers and Me • Shayne Carter of Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer played two live shows with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Christchurch and Dunedin late last year. The “classical fanboy” recounts his experience.

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Culture Etc • We’re globally roaming, meeting Aotearoa’s own kunekune in Europe, loving Buenos Aires despite what the locals say, and journeying by train through Vietnam. On home soil, we talk about art; try gin with a bakery twist; and recall special times in the Coromandel.

This Little Piggy Went to Europe • From down-under to Downey Jr: the rags-to-riches story of the kunekune, New Zealand’s cutest ambassador.

USING THEIR LOAVES • A Dunedin distillery is turning bread into gin, diverting thousands of loaves from landfill a year.

The Art of Exhibition • Julia Waite, Auckland Art Gallery’s curator of New Zealand art, talks about how exhibitions are conceived and presented.

DEAD GLAMOUR • Buenos Aires was once regarded as a sophisticated city worthy of comparison to Paris. Today its inhabitants complain of cracks, chaos, and pickpockets. Is its past beauty truly dead and gone?

A Long Day’s Journey into History • The tale of modern Vietnam flashes past the windows of the Reunification Express.

Along the Beaten Track • A Coromandel bach is where treasured family memories were made.

EATING OUT • Alice Taylor...