Monocle on Saturday (September 14, 2024): Author Kate Kruimink joins Georgina Godwin to talk about her award-winning novella ‘Astraea’ and China Moses discusses her music ahead of the London Jazz Festival launch party.
Plus: Charles Hecker on British diplomats accused of spying in Russia, soaring coffee prices in Italy and the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize.
Some botanists maintain that peas are capable of associative learning, others that tropical vines have a sort of vision. If plants possess sentience, what is the morally appropriate response?
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso, translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
A collection of excerpts from women’s diaries written over the past four centuries offers a vast range of human experience and a subtle counterhistory.
Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries edited by Sarah Gristwood
The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker’s ascension to greater visibility raises questions about how we assess artistic talent, how reputations are made, and how we reevaluate once-neglected artists, particularly women.
Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich/I Am Me an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, June 6–September 9, 2024, and the Art Institute of Chicago, October 12, 2024–January 12, 2025
The Globalist Podcast (September 10, 2024): Turkey will be attending the Arab League Summit for the first time in 13 years. We consider how significant this is.
Plus: we’ll hear about the mpox vaccine rollout in Africa, Germany’s emergency land-border controls and get a round-up of aviation news.
The Globalist Podcast (September 9, 2024): What will it take to get an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal over the line?
Plus: want to govern like it’s 350 BCE? Greece looks to the past for future solutions. Then: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks with “The Perfect Couple” director Susanne Bier.
Monocle on Saturday (September 7, 2024): After the deadly school shooting in Georgia, United States, cultural historian Gavin Plumley and Georgina Godwin look at the judicial process in the country and the political impact of the shooting in an important election year.
Across the pond in the UK, Oasis and Ticketmaster have been dominating headlines – Gavin and Georgina reflect on ‘dynamic pricing’, as well as a survey of Britain losing pride in its past and why this is actually encouraging. Plus: Monocle’s Andrew Mueller speaks to the President of Radio Free Europe about the vital work they do to bring uncensored news to countries like Ukraine, Russia, and Afghanistan.
The Globalist Podcast (September 6, 2024): Emmanuel Macron taps Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, to be France’s new prime minister.
Then: Japanese prime minister Kishida arrives in South Korea as the two countries look to mend relations. Plus: who’s in the driver’s seat at heritage fashion houses: creative directors or tradition?
The Globalist Podcast (September 5, 2024): President Zelensky enacts the biggest reshuffle of Ukraine’s wartime government. What will the new additions mean for the war effort?
Plus: why is Russia changing its nuclear doctrine? And: The Pope’s Indonesia visit, design news, and a special interview with Grammy-winning pianist and composer, Vijay Iyer.
The Globalist Podcast (September 4, 2024): Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro looks to jail the country’s opposition leader Edmundo González. This after the US recognised González as the legitimate winner of July’s presidential election.
Plus: African leaders arrive in Beijing for a key summit. Then: we dive into pop-girl summer and look ahead to autumn’s music trends.
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