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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• 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.

  
  
• Nowtopia - class, capital, and new communities - an interview with Chris Carlsson

  Something must be done! All are agreed - in the wake of the credit crunch and virtual collapse of the global financial system - from the likes of Barack Obama through to the humble everyman on the Clapham Omnnibus. What, though, is another matter. Writer and community activist Chris Carlsson argues that a radical change in the politics of work is needed for a sustainable and bright future - in interview with TMO he talks about class, community, and Nowtopia.

  
  
• American Purgatorio

  Employing diverse structures, including the seven deadly sins, dante, and the American coast-to-coast road-trip, John Haskell's debut novel has been described as 'wildly original' (by Geoff Dyer, no less) and 'remarkable'. Haskell spoke to TMO about American Purgatorio

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• Ireland's Lisbon trauma continues... with no end in sight

  Visiting Czech President Vaclav Klaus created a diplomatic incident when he aligned himself with anti-Lisbon-treaty party Libertas in Dublin, reminding all that the Lisbon treaty ratification issue remains. John O'Brennan argues that an 'all-or-nothing' referendum is Ireland's only solution.