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Travel and restaurants

Hit your stride

We hope that these diverse ideas might inspire you to be ambitious, be serious about having fun – and to get out there, put your best foot forward and go for it.

  • Issue #166
  • 13 min read
Collection of vintage travel guidebooks including Gateway Guide to Eating in France spread on table with coffee cup
Society

Change for good

Big improvements can often come from small adjustments to our behaviour. So how can we ensure that we do things better? We asked 20 thinkers for their take.

  • Issue #141
  • 21 min read
Change for good
Culture

Sound bites

Feeling that the best way to improve your prospects is to believe what you read in a fortune cookie? We’ve come up with some appropriate aphorisms for our times.

  • The Forecast #11
  • 3 min read
Simple black line illustration of a fortune cookie with a smiling face and an open slip of paper.
Society

Easy does it…

'The Monocle Book of Gentle Living' is our just-published title to help you reconnect, make things happen and do something you care about. Here's how to embark on a gentler life.

  • Issue #137
  • 8 min read
Illustration of two women exchanging gifts
Technology

On the right track?

Where's my parcel? How far have I run? Where have I been? The desire to track and trace everything is booming. But have we become slaves to these apps and devices?

  • Issue #136
  • 9 min read
Illustration of people on a street with various tracking activities including fitness monitoring and surveillance
Food & Drink

Think again

Good wine, a happy garden, a book to curl up with. Here’s our roster of early summer treats.

  • Issue #134
  • 4 min read
Think again

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