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Music

Life in motion

This spring's releases are self-reflective, from a surreal drama in Paris to transportive poems with dreamy soundscapes.

  • Issue #142
  • 6 min read
Life in motion
Culture

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.

  • Issue #142
  • 16 min read
The truth hunters
Culture

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?

  • Issue #142
  • 13 min read
Between the lines
Affairs

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…

  • Film
  • 2 min watch
An illustration of two people reconciling
Culture

Only human

Early 2021's cultural highlights: meditative documentaries, introspective music, and a besotted auteur's story.

  • Issue #141
  • 6 min read
Scene from the film Apples showing a person in contemplation
Culture

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.

  • Issue #141
  • 10 min read
Safe in the knowledge
Culture

Call of the wild

Natural-history programmes are kings of the televisual jungle. But are they telling the whole story?

  • Issue #141
  • 10 min read
Call of the wild
Books

Open books

Make this the year that you write that novel – or at least a good letter.

  • Issue #140
  • 18 min read
Portrait illustration of writer Nadia Terranova with brown hair wearing polka dot top
Hospitality

Go clubbing

Hong Kong’s newest private club, Carlyle & Co, is making a splash on Kowloon waterfront.

  • Issue #140
  • 4 min read
Go clubbing
Architecture

Book your ticket

A children’s library housing 18,000 books has been gifted to Osaka by an architect who calls the city home.

  • Issue #140
  • 4 min read
Book your ticket

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