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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Imagine Sarajevo

  How do you bring life back to a city that was the subject of the longest siege in modern European History? How do you encourage youths who have been sniped at and bombed to take an interest in art? What happens when you take five students from the richest part of Europe and send them to Sarajevo, a city that has dissappeared from the consciousness of Europe.

  
  
• Democracy with blood on its Hands: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman

  According to Ariel Dorfman, the central dilemma of our times is "how to make sure that, when grievous harm has been done to us, we do not turn into the monster who has given us such pain". Dorfman, a playwrite, novelist, and essayist of international renown discusses this, in the context of Pinochet's Chile, and our current 'war on terror'.

  
  
• N.A.T.O. Gladio, and the strategy of tension.

  That a clandestine paramilitary network, co-ordinated by N.A.T.O. existed throughtout Western Europe due the Cold War is a fact. Less clear is the relationship between this network and the wave of right-wing terrorism that swept across Europe in the '70s and '80s. Dr. Daniele Ganser, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has published the results of his extensive research into the network, and its links to terrorism. Until governments give full access to secret service archives from the Cold War period, he argues, elements of our current 'war on terror' remain prone to conspiracy theory.

  
  
• 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 discusses Cloud Atlas, genre, publishing and plans for his next novel.

  
  
• "You kill them, if pressed" - Tim Winton

  Tim Winton, Australian author of novels including Cloudstreet, The Riders, and Dirt Music, talks to Three Monkeys Online about his inspirations and fiction, and why the "novel that tries too hard starts to smell like a thesis".