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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Zugzwang, or ‘what do the just do in times of injustice?’ - Ronan Bennett in interview

  A novelist whose work is insistently political, Ronan Bennett is the author of The Catastrophist, Havoc in its Third Year, and most recently Zugzwang. In interview with TMO he talks about the relationship between politics and art, and whether movies will outlast the novel.

  
  
• Poland, The State of the Nation - Uklad, Horse-Trading, and the PiS

  September 2005's Polish election followed a newly established pattern, the annihilation of the incumbent party. Robert Looby, casting a critical eye over the political landscape argues these devestating political changes are largely illusory. The party names change, but the faces remain the same.

  
  
• The Best Democracy Money can Buy. Greg Palast in interview.

  Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money can Busy started working in journalism through frustration. He switched from his career as a racketeering investigator, frustrated that the important stories were not finding their way into the media. Palast uncovered, amongst other stories, the voting irregularities in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election. In interview with Three Monkeys Online, Palast talks about the Apartheid voting system in the States and Media censorship.

  
  
• Michael Longley: Entwining Strands of Love, Nature, War & Death.

  Michael Longley has been labelled a nature poet, a war poet, and a love poet. In truth his large body of work contains elements of all these, and more. The Belfast poet discusses the nature of poetry with Tom Brace, for Three Monkeys Online, as part of our continuing series of articles on Irish poetry.

  
  
• New Writing in ThreeMonkeysOnline

  ThreeMonkeysOnline supports new writers, offering them a platform for publication. Every month we publish poems/fiction from new writers. This month we showcase poems from Irish writer Tom Brace.