The holiday special. Inside: Jacinda on being PM, Amanpour on danger, Ai Weiwei on America, France’s queen of pop. Plus, our ninth annual Soft Power Survey.

An airplane is the perfect, and perhaps the only, place to actually read Monocle, the globe-trotting lifestyle magazine founded in 2007 by Tyler Brûlé, a Canadian editor and erstwhile war ...

“They seem to want to put out a classy magazine that covers the waterfront,” he said of the new Monocle. “I didn’t get the sense that they were in any way, shape or form trying to imitate ...

And at over 200 pages with the most beautiful print value I’d ever seen in a magazine, my God was she cool. Her name? Monocle. Flipping through the August (mumble indistinguishable year ...