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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• History Matters

  Industrialist Henry Ford famously remarked that 'history is mostly bunk', but according to Professor John Tosh, the correct use of history is an invaluable tool for policy-making decisions, citing examples as diverse as the Iraq war and Margaret Thatcher's Victorian family values crusade to back up his claim. Professor Tosh told TMO why History matters.

  
  
• Clones, Criminals, and Plotted Sex - Jenny Davidson, author of Heredity in interview.

  First time novelist, Jenny Davidson, talks about her novel Heredity, by way of cloning, 18^th century literature, and the pointed mobilization of explicit sex for a larger plot purpose.

  
  
• When is Genocide not Genocide? Recognising the Armenian Genocide, eighty-nine years on.

  In 1915, as reported at the time, the Armenian people of eastern Anatolia suffered massacres, forced evictions, and what we would now call Genocide. Eighty-nine years later, there are still countries including the US, Turkey and Israel that refuse to recognise these events as a Genocide. Why? Three Monkeys Online asked Professor Denis Papazian of the Armenian Research Centre.

  
  
• May Day Smear Campaign - the Irish media turns against protesters.

  In keeping with what has almost become a tradition with international meetings, in the run up to Dublin's May day European Conference, and protests, the Irish media have run a number of stories about impending violence. Robert Looby examines the phenomena for Three Monkeys Online Magazine

  
  
• 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.