Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Sunday 25 December
Five films to watch this Christmas
Our selection of must-watch films include two all-time classics, new DVD releases and the latest epic with Christian Bale.
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Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Thursday 22 December
Five books to read this Christmas
Our selection of catch-up reading titles for the holidays includes a comics collection by London-based publisher Nobrow, useful economic insights by Emanuel Derman and the latest novel by JM Ledgard.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Tuesday 20 December
Five exhibitions to visit this Christmas
Our selection of this Christmas break’s must-see exhibitions include Béla Tarr’s retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s 150th anniversary commemorative exhibit at Tokyo’s Mori Arts Center and Eliseu…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 28 December
Five things to check out over New Year
If you run out of ideas for the last days of 2011, our selection includes Woody Allen comedy screenings in London, a sunny resort destination in Thailand and an end-of-year gig in LA.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Sunday 30 December
Five things to do on New Year's
From Aspen to Istanbul, check out five great destinations and events for seeing in the New Year.
The Globalist, episode 256
The top five things needed to understand US political debate, we get business news from Moscow, and hear from our correspondent in Tokyo.
Affairs / Innovation
Outside the box
Whether it be diplomacy or education, it’s time to challenge traditional thinking and shake things up. Monocle introduces five thinkers who are questioning conventional wisdom.
Edits / Retail
Shop idols
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore an old-fashioned sense of community. Here are five doing just that. Things to improve your life
Business / Innovation
Dream machines
From robotic nurses to submersible aircraft, the stuff of science fiction is close to becoming a reality. Monocle tracks down five innovative high-tech firms that are on the brink of achieving great things in 2009.
Design / Interior design
Five studios
If you’re going to employ someone to invade your living space for months and reconfigure your home, you really need to trust the person you call. Here are five design studios, from New York to Sydney, who know how to make…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 8 October
Welcome to the “Russian Venice” (well, almost)
Vyshny Volochek is an ordinary Russian provincial town: tired, grey and emitting a general air of decay.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 March
Let’s try to keep this brief
Hemingway’s greatest work wasn’t a book. Not For Whom the Bell Tolls. Not even A Farewell to Arms. It was a devastatingly short story. Just six words long, in fact.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 September
On provocation
“There are only two or three human stories,” said Carl Linstrum in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!, “and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that…
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 July
Rupee’s new symbol status
India might not yet have cracked the G8, but it is joining an equally select financial group: those economies whose currencies have their own symbol.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Sunday 30 January
Australia’s lawless underbelly surfaces
Crime, for better or worse, is in Australia’s DNA. The country’s famously laid-back residents view their origin as a British penal colony almost as a point of pride, and venerate celebrity toughs such as hitman Mark “Cho…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 18 September
Opposites attract for the Turkic states
It has been more than 1,000 years since Turkic tribes migrated west from the Asian steppe to establish most of the great empires of Central Asia and the Middle East.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 25 November
The Chinese quest for luxury brands
It’s no secret that wealthy Chinese are addicted to luxury brand shopping.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 24 January
The butter shortage is a very Norwegian crisis
My home country has found itself in a rather slippery situation recently. As a nation we’ve always been on top of the world, dwelling casually by the North Pole in a landmass looking somewhat like a disfigured mitten.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 10 March
A Ugandan protest and an unworried president
Uganda’s elite red beret troops weren’t taking any chances.
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Wednesday 27 March
The greatest waiting game on Earth
Cricket. A match can take several days, everyone stops for tea and there's no promise of a winner. What could the attraction possibly be?