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As we face a world that is undergoing unparalleled change, no area is more dynamic than business. To help us understand, navigate and succeed in this new world, the team at Monocle brings together its unique knowledge of culture, politics, economics, and business. Featuring stories of people running enterprises on every scale, the inspirational tales […]

A world without cars would be unrecognizable. They have altered the shape of our cities, nations and landscapes, revolutionized the way we make and sell things, and profoundly influenced our relationship with speed itself. Cars: Accelerating the Modern World presents the car as a driving force that increased the pace of the twentieth century. From […]

I en samling fristående dikter som rör sig mellan fascismens frammarsch, rytmens räddning och vardagen i förorten skriver Farrokhzad till och genom de gemenskaper som format hennes liv och dikt. I rörelser mellan individ och kollektiv, mellan tradition och förnyelse, mellan samtidens gravallvar och absurditet föreslår hon en poesi som vill användas utan att göra […]

This is a walk through a decade’s worth of work by Misha Kahn. Glitzy, wobbly, hairy, witty—no number of adjectives aptly describes an output so vast, one which ranges from underwater mosaic sculptures and scrap-metal chaise longues to a gem-encrusted, wrist-worn, labyrinth-style ball game. Neither strictly an artist nor a designer, Misha himself emphatically avoids […]

‘An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade…I’d put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century’ David Mitchell ‘A near-perfect novel’ Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and each navigate their own complex, […]

Riley Sager är en pseudonym vars skräckthriller De sista flickorna redan har hyllats av en unison kritikerkår.

New York, 1930-tal. Efter att Anna Kerrigans pappa försvunnit under oklara omständigheter tvingas hon axla ansvaret för familjen. När kriget bryter ut får hon jobb på skeppsvarvet och blir sedan varvets första kvinnliga dykare, samtidigt som letandet efter fadern leder henne till gangstern Dexter Styles och hans glamorösa värld. Manhattan Beach är Jennifer Egans hyllade […]

A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history – now in a compact new edition. Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 250 fascinating examples of maps from the birth of cartography to today’s cutting-edge digital maps and reflects the many reasons people make maps – to find […]