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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Dantean Echoes - The influence of Dante on Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney

  James Joyce was, and remains a domineering presence on the Irish literary landscape. Less acknowledged, though, is the influence of Dante Alighieri, despite echoes found in the works of Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and indeed Joyce.

  
  
• Books hold no passport - Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses The Shadow of the Wind

  One of the most exciting and popular European authors to achieve wide success in translation is Spain's Carlos Ruiz Zafon, whose 'The Shadow of the Wind' has become a publishing phenomena. 'Books hold no passports' Zafon insists to TMO interviewer Steve Porter, while they discuss, amongst other things, why his Barcelona is so dark and foggy.

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• Cosa Nostra - rebranding the Mafia.

  John Dickie's Cosa Nostra is one of the first serious attempts to examine the Sicilian mafia from an Historian's perspective. In interview with Three Monkeys Online, Dickie, a senior lecturer of Italian History at the University of London, explains the mafia's historical roots.

  
  
• Seán O’Casey - Portrait of the Artist as an Outsider

  Seán O’Casey, for many was the 'slum dramatist', not only because his classic trilogy of plays, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, and The Plough and the Stars were set in Dublin's working class slums, but because O'Casey himself, it seemed, came from that background. But, in reality, much of this was an adopted persona. Tom Brace examines the historical context of O'Casey's and the relationship between an artist's persona and his work.