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Easel living
Why rent expensive studio or gallery space when you can create and showcase at home? Meet the real artists in residence.
Perfect pantry
Italian food is probably the world’s best but to match the country’s top chefs, you’ll need the right ingredients to hand. To round off our book preview we share some Italian staples.
Med school
'The Monocle Book of Italy' is our grand tour of the nation's best design, business, food and fashion. Here its editor, Chiara Rimella, holds forth on cataloguing her home nation's best bits.
Sound effects
Italian pop star Mahmood's Arabic-infused hit "Soldi" became the country's most-streamed song ever, challenging far-right notions of Italianness while redefining contemporary Italian music for international audiences.
Life in motion
This spring's releases are self-reflective, from a surreal drama in Paris to transportive poems with dreamy soundscapes.
The truth hunters
Despite exile and threats from Myanmar's military regime, this US-educated journalist returns to report on his homeland's darkest chapters, driven by duty over career ambition.
Between the lines
Reporting from the middle ground of a divided city, the ‘South China Morning Post’ treads a tricky path. But will it be able to continue its balanced reporting as press freedom is increasingly attacked?
Monocle’s digital decency manifesto
Technology is everywhere but that ubiquity can come at a cost to our health, wellbeing and the quality of our conversations. View our manifesto for a more dignified relationship with all things digital and…
Only human
Early 2021's cultural highlights: meditative documentaries, introspective music, and a besotted auteur's story.
Safe in the knowledge
How can media sustain us? Keep conversations simple, challenge untruths, fix neighbourhoods? We visit three projects that are good for their environments.
