By Shane Barry - Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Break, Blow, Burn - Camille Paglia discusses poetry
Camille Paglia, since the publication of her first book Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, has stood out as one of America's leading, and controversial, intellectuals. Her latest book, Break, Blow, Burn- Camil...
Showing the Bones - Sean O'Reilly in Interview
Included by some as part of a group of young Irish writers chronicling life in a vastly changed Ireland, Sean O'Reilly's novels The Swing of Things and Watermark are set in contemporary Dublin. O'Reilly, though, as he tells Shane Barry in in...
As clear as mirror glass. John Banville in interview
John Banville's latest novel, The Sea presents Max Morden, a recently widowed man, who returns to a sea-side resort to turn over fragments of his life. Banville discusses the work with Three Monkeys Online, alongside the wider topics of death, come...
Silver Daggers and Russian Dolls - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, in interview.
David Mitchell's work, to date, has been both experimental and appealing to a broad public. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the booker prize (as was his second novel Number9dream). In interview with Shane Barry Mitchell dis...
The Game of War. Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle.
Guy Debord was the leading French philosopher of the Situationist International. 10 years after his death, by suicide, his work The Society of the Spectacle seems ever more relevant, and has worked its way into the vocabulary of groups as diverse a...
Classic Albums - The Pogues Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Shane Barry takes a look back at 80's Ireland and its American obsessions, and finds genius in the fresh, traditional debut of the Pogues....
The Dark Heart of Italy - a review
During the Italian European Union Presidency, Silvio Berlusconi once again shot to prominence all around Europe. Shane Barry reviews The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, whose thesis remains that Silvio Berlusconi is tied very much to that dark...
2001 - A retrospective
Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey...
Reviews by Shane Barry published in 3Monkeys Online
The Constant Gardener
Film adaptation of John Le Carré's 2001 novel. Director: Fernando Meirelles Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Bill Nighy, Gerard McSorley, Danny Huston ...
Song for Katya by Kevin Stevens
The latest novel from Irish based American Kevin Stevens, author of Cops and Robbers and the Rizzoli Contract. Song for Katya is set against the backdrop of a pre-perestroika Soviet Union....
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
A story of love, loss and hidden truths, according to the publishers, by Ishiguro, author of amongst other titles The Remains of the Day. ...
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
The latest novel from acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle....
Kinsey
Biopic of the American sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon. Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, and Peter Sarsgaard....
