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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Chronicling Catastrophes - an interview with Åsne Seierstad, journalist and author of The Bookseller of Kabul

  From her first assignments in Russia and Chechnya, Åsne Seierstad has chronicled some of the world's most dangerous conflicts, and has concentrated on the lives behind the fighting. She spoke to Berit Haugen Keyes about her bestselling book The Bookseller of Kabul, the conflicts she has seen, and her current and future projects.

  
  
• Tragedy is an extreme form of desire - Ken Harvey interview

  Ken Harvey's debut collection of short stories, If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right won the inaugural Violet Quill award for Gay/Lesbian fiction. In interview with Three Monkeys, American author Harvey discusses the inspiration for his stories, the role of autobiography, and the moment that he discovered a fiction that spoke to him of his own reality.

  
  
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Laila Lalami interview

  Laila Lalami's debut novel Hope and other dangerous pursuits puts a human face on the issue of illegal immigration from North Africa to Europe. Without indulging in sentimentality or false optimism, Lalami has written a moving and deeply political novel. In interview with TMO she talks about the choices she made in the novel.

  
  
• Black Triangles, Purple Triangles - The Forgotten Holocaust.

  In a further article on the Holocaust, Francesca Panozzo examines the persecution led by the Nazis against the Jehovah's Witnesses and Gypsies.

  
  
• From the Armalite to the Strawberry Smoothie - 21st Century Ireland, North and South.

  By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up Republican, Nationalist and Catholic. Instead he grew up an afficionado of punk rock, football, and international politics. McDonald, biographer of Ulster Unionist David Trimble, and the Observer's Ireland Editor, discusses with Three Monkeys Online the alternative narratives of identity in Ireland, and those increasingly outdated ones that dominated the last century.