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In this week's New Zealand Listener

January 10-16 2009 Vol 217 No 3583

Features

  • Cover Story You can talk by Guy Somerset
    Having a good chinwag is the stuff of life, yet many of us struggle in social situations – prompting a British author to become a crusader for the lost art of conversation.

  • Feature 'I will not grow old' by Joanne Black
    Chris Wanick doesn’t know whether it was prolonged sun exposure that caused his skin cancer, but he does know the melanoma is killing him.

  • Feature Rubbing it in by Joanne Black
    As Kiwis make the most of the sunshine, holidaymakers are reminded that a dispute about sunscreen protection ratings should not put people off using them.

Arts & Books

  • Poetry Remnants for PC by Leonard Lambert

  • Poetry Ritual for a new year by Lynn Davidson

  • Poetry Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea by David Gregory

  • Poetry Tail-gaters by Elizabeth Smither

  • Poetry 3D scan by Diana Bridge

Books

  • Books November the fifth by Emily Perkins

  • Books The night book by Charlotte Grimshaw

  • Books The funeral seekers by Savea Sano Malifa

  • Books Waimate by Dave Armstrong

  • Books Closer by James Brown

TV & Radio

Columnists

  • Editorial Taken as read

  • The Internaut Glad she's a Kennedy by Deborah Hill Cone

  • Television Lost soul by Diana Wichtel

  • Life Therein lies a tail by Bill Ralston

  • Health Too hot to handle by Linley Boniface

  • Nutrition Who's counting? by Jennifer Bowden

  • Inbox Gift of regulation by Jon Bridges

  • Economy Needs to know by Brian Easton

  • Ecologic Scoping the pool by Sarah Barnett

  • Food Blowing your stack by Martin Bosley

  • Wine Fully booked by Michael Cooper

  • Travel Prague pilgrimage by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

  • The Black Page Daze gone by by Joanne Black