Rings? Oh, you’ll have seen a few at last night’s Olympic opening ceremony. But can new life be breathed into the Games’ ancient iconography? Japanese artist Mariko Mori thinks so and has constructed a three-metre-wide…
Raise a glass to small enterprises this Christmas with a beer brewed in the Holy Land itself. Carakale is Jordan’s first micro-brewery, situated just outside Amman and slowly gathering a roaring trade. It’s already on tap…
For a moment it looked as though fearless little Wallonia – the region of Belgium that no one had ever heard of – was going to derail seven years of trade negotiations. So it was a visibly relieved Justin Trudeau, Donald…
Italian director Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary film Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), which first garnered international acclaim for winning Berlin’s Golden Bear, bagged the European Film Award’s accolade for best documentary this…
The Venice Architecture Biennale is always a display of soft power for the participating nations just as much as it is an architectural show. All the more so this year thanks to “Reporting from the Front”, the socially…
Master of dark comedies and tales of the absurd, Andrey Kurkov is the Ukrainian author of ‘Death And The Penguin’ and ‘A Matter of Death and Life’. For his last meal, he takes us to his local haunt, Jungle Cat, for some…
Over a beer and steak in an 18th-century coffee house, the celebrated Finnish chair
designer takes a seat to talk sunsets, saunas and smoking his own salmon.
February is the perfect time to start new projects – how about that novel you’ve always meant to write? Actually, why think so small? How about a manifesto for shaking up a small nation, from overhauling the transport…
For Alain Ducasse's 'last meal', the Michelin-starred chef and famed restauranteur pays tribute to Monaco and the restaurant that sealed his reputation. He's also used to contemplating his demise. In 1984 he survived a…
Tokyo may be peaceful and calm but its governor is certainly not. Here he explains why his city has bad traffic (the Communists), what he thinks of modern Tokyo (vomit) and why kamikaze pilots were not suicide bombers.
The author initially saw the cookbook as a manual and nothing more. But once she started writing about food – and discovered the importance of preserving her heritage – she couldn’t stop.
Roman roads that still lead the way, the future of the EU, the sheer pleasure of swinging an axe and a few more subjects to fire up your imagination and get you talking in 2016.
While in Dubai for the UAE’s first Arab Women Leadership Forum, 34-year-old TV-show host Muna Abu Sulayman met with Monocle for her ‘last meal’. The Saudi citizen chose Saladicious, a restaurant in the Jumeirah district.