Monocle on Sunday (November 24, 2024): Juliet Linley and Chandra Kurt join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.
We also speak to Monocle’s executive editor, Christopher Lord, and get the latest news from Monocle’s Vienna correspondent, Alexei Korolyov. Plus: Katja Weber, the organiser of Zürich’s enchanting Christmas market at Bellevue, joins us to share her seasonal insights.
Sudden glimpses of urban artistry. By Françoise MoulyArt by Javier Mariscal
The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”
Monocle on Sunday (November 17, 2024): Rainbow Murray joins Emma Nelson for a look through the week’s news, including Cop29 and a Marine Le Pen lawsuit.
Plus: we head to Sydney for insights into the UBS Australasia Conference 2024 with Monocle’s Asia editor James Chambers. Then: Monocle’s France correspondent, Mary Fitzgerald, gives us the latest news from the region.
Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America. By Erin Maglaque
In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
“A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy” by Julia Rombough
In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
“Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment” by Charles Taylor
Monocle on Sunday (November 10, 2024): David Schlesinger and Tessa Szyszkowitz join Emma Nelson in London for a look back at the week’s news, including the fallout from the US election.
Plus: Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins from Sydney ahead of next week’s live broadcast of ‘The Globalist’ from the Harbour City. Finally, Monocle’s New Delhi correspondent, Lyndee Prickitt, gives us the latest headlines from India.
On the morning of Wednesday, November 6th, Donald J. Trump was elected, for the second time, as President of the United States. For the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue, Barry Blitt depicted Trump’s looming silhouette—a reminder that a second term, though bound to include more moves from his all too familiar far-right playbook, will also undoubtedly usher in a new era of unprecedented extremism and intensified uncertainty in America.
The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before
Jeff Bezos endorsed a Trump-era slogan—“Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate? By David Remnick
The handful of Kamala Harrises who aren’t the Vice-President review the perks (wayward donors) and the perils (threatening phone calls) of their name. By Dan Greene
After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism might look like. This fall, he took his act on tour. By Andrew Marantz
Monocle on Sunday (November 3, 2024): Emma Nelson, Nina dos Santos and Simon Brooke on the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Hong Kong.
Plus: journalist and attorney, Jami Floyd, on Trump’s potential legal challenges and Monocle’s Balkans correspondent, Guy De Launey, on the latest news from the region.
Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.
Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian
Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.
The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown
The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.
Studies increasingly suggest that a healthy nation depends on a healthy democracy. By Dhruv Khullar
“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
As the war grinds on, logistical challenges are compounded by politics, repeated evacuations, and…By Dorothy Wickenden
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