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By the book

18 August 2011

School textbooks have come a long way since the dry and fusty tomes of yesteryear. Innovations such as digital editions, 3D simulations and role-playing adventure books are making learning easier – and more fun.

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By the book

23 March 2023

The completion of a 15-year library renovation is the end of a chapter for the team behind it – but the bonds they’ve formed are an ongoing story.

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The Monocle Book of the Nordics

An expedition across Europe’s northernmost reaches, The Monocle Book of the Nordics looks beyond the frozen expanses, thick forests and towering mountains and uncovers the folks, firms and stories that have helped the…

Monocle Minute

Book binding

26 February 2016

The Taiwanese city of Tainan is championing an expansive light-flooded library in a bid to unite its booming population. Numbers in Tainan have swelled since Tainan County and Tainan City merged in 2010 to create one spe…

Monocle Minute

Booked up

10 November 2015

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s success in winning parliamentary approval for two security bills in September despite public opposition has given the publishing industry a rare gift: a hot topic. Publishers have been…

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Book credits

25 April 2013

The Hyundai Card Design Library has opened in South Korea’s capital, its shelves stacked with thousands of diverse design titles in appropriately impressive surroundings.

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Book smarts

21 April 2022

Clients from Frieze to Rizzoli come to the graphic designer for her storytelling skills. And she delivers bestsellers.

Film

All God's Children Can Dance

15 February 2007

All God's Children Can Dance is the first film adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story in the US. Director Robert Logevall cut a special trailer of the film for Monocle, which we're delighted to present here. Logevall says…

Film

The Monocle Book of Photography

7 June 2022

The Monocle Book of Photography draws on the best of our visual stories from an archive 15 years in the making. A handsomely produced linen-bound edition, the book also features original reporting about each of the assig…

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Monocle on Design - By the book

19 July 2016

On today’s show we book in some time with the writers, commissioners, printers and editors behind the design world’s budding publishing scene.

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Open book

17 October 2019

Bookseller James Daunt has been tasked with changing the fortunes of Barnes & Noble. We take a glimpse inside the covers.

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Fully booked

15 October 2014

France’s artistic reach in the US is in the hands of charismatic cultural counsellor Antonin Baudry. As part of a busy calendar the diplomat and author is building a bookshop in France’s New York embassy; we popped in to…

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Fully booked

16 October 2014

France’s artistic reach in the US is in the hands of charismatic cultural counsellor Antonin Baudry. As part of a busy calendar the diplomat and authoris building a bookshop in France’s New York embassy; we popped in to…

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Dress book

15 August 2009

While we’re hoping for an Indian summer, it won’t do any harm to start choosing a few pieces for those colder days. Our key selects for the season offer looks for work and play.

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Cooking the books

20 January 2015

How do you train a workforce that values manual work, is self-reliant, accommodating to both men and women and, above all, hospitable? In Finland it starts with a simple premise: biscuits.

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Fully booked

25 April 2024

The team behind this literary haven is developing a business model for the modern age.