Birthdays are good for you. They must be because the people who have the most birthdays live the longest. So it is with unreserved celebration that we congratulate MONOCLE on a stellar first year in print. In this short time it has turned the whole idea of magazines and news reportage on its head.**Every month a beautifully designed, pristinely shot, assiduously researched, stunningly packaged and well-styled volume hits the shelf with a resounding thud. Sure the odd article is so pretentious one might rather slit their wrists with a platinum Amex card, but for the most part this straddles the world of news and prestige quite effortlessly and you’re just not civilised if you don’t read it.
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Martha Marcy May MarleneWriter-director Sean Durkin’s debut feature is subtly, almost perfectly calibrated between idyllic and terrifying, all the way to its chillingly...
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WeekendThough it’s a small film, Weekend grabs at a lot of big ideas that will needle you long after it ends. Writer/director Andrew Haigh crafts...
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An interview with OFWGKTAComplete this sentence: If Odd Future were elected president, we would… Tyler – Make skateboarding legal and have a national titty...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyWhere Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-James Bond. Still,...
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Woollen Kits, ‘Woollen Kits’ ...If it was early nineties Spin magazine would no doubt be calling this ‘slacker’ rock and yes it has a loose and relaxed feel but...
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Poolside Boners: an owner’s manual ...Most of the men who read this publication are well through puberty, but not so far through it they’ve forgotten the sheer humiliation that...