April 16, 2023: Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé chats with Fabienne Kinzelmann and Eemeli Isoaha about the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to our friends and correspondents in Lisbon, Ljubljana and London.
Tag Archives: Stories
Sunday Morning: Stories From London And Helsinki
April 9, 2023: Emma Nelson, Latika Bourke and Steve Cannane on the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Portugal and hear from our Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff.
Sunday Morning: Stories From London And Zürich
April 2, 2023: Emma Nelson is joined by Enrico Franceschini, Vincent McAviney in Zürich and Tyler Brûlé in Tokyo.
Sunday Morning: Stories From London And Dubai
March 26, 2023: Emma Nelson, Isabel Hilton and Lynne O’Donnell on the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to our editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Dubai and Monocle’s Asia editor, James Chambers, in Bangkok.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Jan 29, 2023
The New York Times Book Review – January 29, 2023:
Fleeing Slavery in a Top Hat and Cravat
“Master Slave Husband Wife,” by Ilyon Woo, relates the daring escape from bondage in Georgia to freedom in the North by an enslaved couple disguised as a wealthy planter and his property.
Think Screens Stole Our Attention? Medieval Monks Were Distracted Too.
In “The Wandering Mind,” the historian Jamie Kreiner shows that the struggle to focus is not just a digital-age blight but afflicted even those who spent their lives in seclusion and prayer.
‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld
In Deepti Kapoor’s cinematic novel, a young man from the provinces falls in with a powerful crime syndicate.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Jan 15, 2023
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The New York Times Book Review (January 15, 2023):
‘Terrorist’ — to Whom?
V.V. Ganeshananthan’s novel “Brotherless Night” reveals the moral nuances of violence, ever belied by black-and-white terminology.
The Highland Heroine Who Helped Rescue a Prince
Since her daring mission in 1746, Flora Macdonald has lived on in myth. A new biography by Flora Fraser attempts to sort fact from fiction.
Where Adventurous, Curious Women Rule
In three new historical novels, female protagonists defy odds and push limits.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine- January 16, 2023
How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking?
Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
The Crisis of Missing Migrants
What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?
Can UPS Still Deliver a Middle-Class Life?
The company offers steady jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
Sunday Morning: Stories & Headlines From Zurich, London, Istanbul And Kyiv
January 8, 2023: Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé, Juliet Linley and Marcus Schögel on the weekend’s biggest talking points. Plus: check-ins with our friends and correspondents in London, Istanbul and Kyiv.
Headlines: West To Send New Weapons To Ukraine, U.S.-Mexico Border Policy
January 6, 2023 – We discuss the West’s renewed efforts to send weapons to Ukraine. Plus: the US president, Joe Biden, announces a plan for the Mexican border, a flick through the day’s papers and Singapore Art Week.
News: Foreign Fighters On The Front Lines In Ukraine
Luke Mogelson, a contributing writer at The New Yorker, is one of the rare reporters who has seen the war in Ukraine from the front lines. He recently spent two weeks embedded with a group of fighters from around the world who had chosen to travel to Ukraine and join the war against Russia.
In a new story in the magazine, he writes about the sophisticated and incessant violence of the war, and the mentality that keeps these volunteer soldiers there, fighting on behalf of a country that is not their own. He joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss what he witnessed.
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