Culture / Publishing
Manga juice
A manga about wine has proven a hit with readers in Japan. It’s written by a brother and sister duo, who spin stories while under the influence; there’s a French edition and it is being made into a Korean TV series.
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Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 19 April
The Liberal Democrats triumph
Last week, Britain’s three main party leaders took part in the first of a series of live TV debates.
Affairs / Small Business
Catch of the day
The remote Alaskan outpost of Unalaska boasts the US’s biggest commercial port, thanks to a hugely profitable fishing season. And don’t forget the oil industry and a hit TV series...
The Curator, episode 74
Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald selects his highlights this week, including a selection from our series profiling cities pitching for the 2020 Olympic Games and a report from the Discop Istanbul TV conference.
Culture / Publishing
Freedom writer
For our series on media barons we feature Erick Thohir, founder of the Mahaka Media group in Jakarta. After revitalising the failing paper ‘Republika’ he’s now on a mission to modernise print, radio and TV in a freer Ind…
Culture / Media
Puppet state
The foolery of Kenyan politics provides an irresistible subject for comedy, one that Gado, a newspaper cartoonist, has based his career on. And now for the second TV series of his new controversial project, ‘The XYZ Show’…
Culture / Politics
Azteca camera
To round off our series on the foreign media’s coverage of the US presidential campaigns, we talk to Armando Guzmán of Mexico’s TV Azteca about crossed wires and counter immigration.
End Point / Media
Observation
Journalists ask the craziest questions At a recent media-centric conference in Munich a series of reporters from various print, online and TV outlets asked me to reflect on this magazine’s first year and why we decided to…
The Globalist, episode 374
We profile PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and discuss prospects for peace in Turkey, find out why Putin is making Russian officials drop foreign assets and head to Brazil as we continue our series on TV around the world.
Culture / Soft Power
Telly Cities
No matter how much money and effort is put into marketing your city, if you want tourists to visit and everyone to know its name, nothing compares to having a popular TV series being filmed in your city. Monocle looks at…
Culture / Television
Monocolumn
Wednesday 9 February
Swedes turn on and tune in to crime
Sweden’s reputation as a nation of relaxed and peace-loving people has already taken a bit of a battering, thanks to the success of Henning Mankell’s Wallander series and the Stieg Larsson novels.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 29 August
Dramatic twist for South Korean stars
Tensions between Japan and South Korea have reached an uncomfortably low point.
Culture / Television
Dream export
The burgeoning soft power of the nation that straddles the East-West divide is rooted in its flourishing drama production industry, capturing hearts and minds from Pakistan to South America. Just don’t call them soap operas…
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 August
Olympic group hug
What the hell do we do now? This morning London’s airports are filling up with athletes heading home from the Olympics. It’s a nylon ocean of the tracksuited and fit.
Culture / Television
Monocolumn
Saturday 30 April
New drama looks to crack the US ‘Spanglish’ market
Nothing is more quintessentially “Latin American” than telenovelas: those swoon-inducing, drama-filled, Spanish-language soap operas found everywhere from Patagonia to the Rio Grande.
Culture / Television
Monocolumn
Sunday 3 October
Chatshows that talk too much
For millions of Egyptians, tuning into one of the numerous political chatshows that dominate the evening TV schedules is as habitual as eating dinner or lighting up a Cleopatra cigarette.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 26 August
Remembering the past requires respect
Scattered around the cities, towns, villages and hamlets of Great Britain and most of Europe, sit memorials to those who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 6 April
Weekend agenda, 7/8 April
This weekend’s highlights include a new Mexican restaurant in London, a restored French cinema classic and the latest album from Malian duo Amadou and Mariam.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 16 December
Lexicon artists
Forget about last week and its focus on mega-elections – president of America, Archbishop of Canterbury, Coptic Christian pope, run-up to the new boss of China, etc – forget all that because this week is the week that has…