The Globalist Podcast (June 13, 2024): As Hamas says it accepts a UN resolution which backs a plan to end the war in Gaza, we examine what this means for the region.
Plus: Monocle’s editors bring us reports from a spate of creative conferences across Europe in the fields of design, urbanism and animated film.
The Globalist Podcast (June 11, 2024): We examine the latest developments in Iran’s presidential race and take stock of last week’s European Parliament elections. Plus: a closer look at Belarus’s participation in nuclear drills with Russia.
The Globalist Podcasts (June 10, 2024): News from this weekend’s EU elections. Plus: Brics foreign ministers meet in Nizhny Novgorod, the latest on Rafah and how might the detainment of a French scholar in Russia further strain relations with the West?
In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup
Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei
Monocle on Sunday, June 9, 2024: Juliet Linley and Gabe Bullard join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.
We also speak to Monocle’s Europe editor at large, Ed Stocker, for the latest updates on the EU elections and Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, gives us the view from London. Plus: Art Basel CEO, Noah Horowitz, joins to discuss this year’s event.
Monocle on Saturday (June 8, 2024): Writer and social commentator Lijia Zhang joins Georgina Godwin to talk about the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, organising her own protest, China’s relationship with Russia and Ukraine and the K-pop balloons sent to North Korea.
Plus: Kate Mosse, author and founder director of the Women’s Prize, joins to discuss the organisation’s live event and Bookbanks founder Emily Rhodes on her initiative bringing books to foodbanks.
The Globalist Podcasts (June 7, 2024): We reflect on South Korea’s first summit with leaders from 48 African countries and how the country plans to increase its influence in the region.
Plus: plans for teetotal cruises in Saudi Arabia, a roundup of retail news and an interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater.
The Globalist Podcast (June 4, 2024): Israel and Hamas weigh up the latest plan for peace in Gaza. Meanwhile, China has accused the UK’s MI6 of recruiting a couple as spies in the latest incident of alleged espionage going public.
Plus: aviation news and why the Swiss Air Force is practising landing on motorways.
The Globalist Podcast (June 3, 2024): Why neglect of Burkina Faso’s ongoing crisis is the ‘new normal’ and the results from Mexico’s historical election.
Also in the programme: Samir Puri is in Singapore as leaders discuss security in Asia, Nick Bryant tells us what’s next for Donald Trump in the wake of his conviction and the latest culture news with Amah Rose Abrams.
Monocle on Sunday, June 2, 2024: Emma Nelson, Charles Hecker and Isabel Hilton on the weekend’s biggest talking points.
We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Sweden and Monocle’s Balkans correspondent, Guy de Launey, in Ljubljana. Plus: Monocle’s Georgina Godwin and Hay Festival CEO, Julie Finch, join from Hay-on-Wye to look back at this year’s event.
