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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Our man in Havana: introducing Leonardo Padura Fuentes and the quill of mystery

  Cuban Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist, essayist, and critic is probably best known for his series of detective novels based around the character of Mario Conde in Havana. Three Monkeys met the author on a recent visit to London (he still lives in Cuba) to discuss detective fiction, politics, and how he was misled by Hemmingway.

  
  
• The Human Side of Occupation. Suad Amiry, author of Sharon and my Mother-in-Law in interview

  Suad Amiry's acclaimed Ramallah Diaries, published under the title Sharon and my Mother-in-Law, capture the absurdities, mundanity, and violence of living under a military occupation. Written with a keen sense of humour, the book has been a publishing sensation, translated into eleven languages and now available in English.

  
  
• In Defence of a Liberal Education.

  Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we would not, and why, then, should we accept religious schools so readily?

  
  
• Tales of torture, and so on - Jon Ronson, author of The men who stare at goats, in interview

  It may well be a sign of the times, that a humorist is left with the responsibility of informing the public about torture. In his book The Men who stare at goats Jon Ronson presents human portraits of some of the US Military, whose ideas have in part inspired events in Abu-Ghraib, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. In interview he discusses the tension between humour, journalism and social commentary in his work.

  
  
• Closing the Circle: Jonathan Coe In Interview

  Few British authors have managed to straddle the line between critical acclaim and commercial success quite as effectively as Jonathan Coe. Author of such influential novels as What a Carve Up!, The Rotter's Club, and last year's The Closed Circle, he has deftly combined humour and political awareness. Being a 'State of the Nation' writer, autobiography, and a certain dissatisfaction with 'story-telling' are amongst the topics up for discussion in this interview with Alex Mitchell.