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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Those burnt tongue moments - Chuck Palahniuk in interview

  Critics rage that his books are for readers who don't read books, while his sustainers label him the king of 'minimalism'. His latest book Haunted is both a bestseller and an attempt to re-define horror. Palahniuk, in interview with Three Monkeys Online gives his views on horror, reader-response theories, and the power of storytelling.

  
  
• Balancing the Renaissance - Tim Parks on Medici Money

  Fifteenth Century Florence was the centre of the artistic explosion we now term the renaissance. It was also home to the relatively new profession of banking, which, for families like the Medici, created the wealth which was used to patronise the arts. English novelist Tim Parks talks to Three Monkeys Online about the Medici, usury, and the uneasy relationship, then and now, between money, art, and religion.

  
  
• Protestant Boy - Geoffrey Beattie in interview

  Professor of Psychology at Manchester University, author, and resident Psychologist on Channel Four's Big Brother, Geoffrey Beattie has recently written an inciteful memoir of his Ulster Protestant upbringing. In interview with Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• Iraq Death Toll in Third Year of Occupation is Highest Yet

  Three years on from the Invasion of Iraq, and the human cost of this war is still unclear. While information on civilian deaths is still unforthcoming from the US & UK governments, the Iraq Body Count provides important figures.