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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Closing the Circle: Jonathan Coe In Interview

  Few British authors have managed to straddle the line between critical acclaim and commercial success quite as effectively as Jonathan Coe. Author of such influential novels as What a Carve Up!, The Rotter's Club, and last year's The Closed Circle, he has deftly combined humour and political awareness. Being a 'State of the Nation' writer, autobiography, and a certain dissatisfaction with 'story-telling' are amongst the topics up for discussion in this interview with Alex Mitchell.

  
  
• Samuel Johnson is indignant - TMO meets Lydia Davis

  Even the best writers, at times, need to waste some words to work their way into a story. Few have been as daring as American author Lydia Davis, whose stories, on occasion, have been no more than two lines. Davis, also a novelist and sought after translator, is almost unfashionably interested in the strength of words. Her latest collection, Samuel Johnson is indignant, recently gave Three Monkeys Online the perfect excuse to interview the innovative and entertaining Davis.

  
  
• A Poet's Space - an interview with Brendan Kennelly

  Lauded by Auden and Bono, Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most succesful, and popular, poets. Kennelly, born in Ballylongford Kerry, is the author of , amongst others, The Book of Judas, Cromwell, and Poetry My Arse. Brendan Kennelly, in conversation with Tom Brace for Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• Seventeenth Century Dutch Art – Recording the Visual World

  Pictures record the world but they are inexorably bound up with the perception of the world by the artist. The emergence of the Dutch Republic was one of the key national historical events of the 17^th century and the intense realism of painting from this time shows the desire to record not only the visual world but also the collective mindset of the nation.

  
  
• ‘Keeping the Tempo’: The Orange Revolution Remembered

  In November 2004 Horatio Morpurgo flew into Kiev, on his way to report on a Nature reserve for an ecological magazine. By chance he found himself in the midst of the Orange revolution. Morpurgo gives his eye-witness account of the Ukranian Orange revolution to Three Monkeys Online.