Culture
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How Helen Garner turned her personal diaries into prize-winning literature
Baillie Gifford prize winning writer Helen Garner reflects on how decades of journal-keeping shaped her writing, transforming moments of love, anger and everyday life into honest, unsparing reflections on truth, ageing and what it…
Far from a closed book, Tokyo’s T-Site matters more than ever
I’m generally averse to recommendation lists. Every city has been Google Doc’d and mapped to death, especially Tokyo. And yet there’s one longtime Monocle favourite where I always send visitors: Tsutaya Books in Daikanyama,…
Museums should ask questions. But does Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian project provoke too many?
There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Two decades in the making, more than $1bn (€870m) spent and…
Perfectly in tune and en pointe: ‘Black Sabbath – The Ballet’
Sparks fly as the heavy metal band provides the soundtrack to a ballet that celebrates the birth of heavy metal.
The art of ageing: Inside the studios of seven in-demand artists in their eighties and nineties
As we all too easily forget, ageing is a gift – and what gifts these artists continue to give the world.
Following specialist investigators on the hunt for Nazi-looted works of art
After the recent Louvre heist, a reminder that the world’s missing art is rarely gone for good – just waiting to resurface, often in the most unexpected of places.
The forgotten underpass of Tokyo’s Skwat Kameari has become a creative, cultural hotspot
With his new arts and retail project, Keisuke Nakamura is bringing a long-neglected corner of the Japanese capital to life.
Three independent publishers getting book design just right
These bookmakers have caught our eye with their distinctive designs and unique offerings hidden between covers.
