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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Dear Barack - an open letter

  "we recognise something political in you. We suspect that you analyse problems from a political rather than a pragmatic perspective, and we like that, because for most of us, pragmatism is what our politicians call politics, and the political is a sphere our politicians rarely enter." Irish novelist writes to American President Barack Obama.

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• As clear as mirror glass. John Banville in interview

  John Banville's latest novel, The Sea presents Max Morden, a recently widowed man, who returns to a sea-side resort to turn over fragments of his life. Banville discusses the work with Three Monkeys Online, alongside the wider topics of death, comedy, and book reviewing!

  
  
• "Tumultuous, prolonged applause ending in ovation. All rise." Khrushchev's "Secret Report" and Poland

  In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, addressing a closed session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, did the unthinkable and denounced his predecessor Stalin. The report on the "cult of the individual", which inevitably and quickly leaked out across the Eastern Bloc, was shocking - people were reported to have fainted upon hearing it. Robert Looby takes a look at the report, and the Polish reaction to it at the time.

  
  
• The Dark Heart of Italy - a review

  During the Italian European Union Presidency, Silvio Berlusconi once again shot to prominence all around Europe. Shane Barry reviews The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, whose thesis remains that Silvio Berlusconi is tied very much to that dark heart.