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Culture
This month’s culture roundup. Films include an animated documentary on the Lebanon war and a Russian émigré junkie in London. Books feature Soviet chic, a noir New York tale, and Argentinian memoir.
Light bulb moment
In our series on working lives, we enter artist Katie Paterson's world. She brings ideas of the universe to life, with witty installations that involve calling a mobile phone inside a glacier.
Town crier
The ‘Rutland Herald’ is Vermont's second-largest daily and the oldest family-owned newspaper in continuous operation in the US. In 2001, it won a Pulitzer prize for its editorials supporting same-sex civil unions.
Press for change
Mauricio Funes has given up his career as a TV journalist to become president of El Salvador. Ahead in the polls, he’s the new face of the FMLN, a former left-wing guerrilla group.
Arty party
Everybody who is anybody in the world of architecture goes to the Venice Biennale. So why were there so few good ideas this time?
Saint Etienne
A band that shares a few of Monocle’s own city-centric obsessions, St Etienne has mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic…
Ferozsons bookshops
A flick through the paperbacks on the shelves of Lahore's oldest bookshop.
Culture
Beat the winter blues with our international film-festival round-up. We also review new books on China's migrants, Parisian art from Jeremy Deller and fresh music from ambient's elder statesmen.
New woman
Veteran broadcaster Irena Lesnevskaya, editor-in-chief of opposition news magazine The New Times since 2007, is a Russian dissident who has stayed in her country to speak out against Kremlin corruption.
Art market
Hip-hop's money folders sell their rocks in New York and modern art titans get hammered in Japan.
