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Monocle --the magazine that covers urbanism and city design like no other --knows about the hidden gems in all the great cities

The Dark Lord

and even France

Westerners focus on salient objects or people

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet clothes-new-arrivals-2025-01-14 Monocle --the magazine that coversThe year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the high walled, fan shaped artificial island that is the Japanese Empires single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and