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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Books by and an Interview with: Mary Midgley

  Mary Midgley is one of Britain's leading philosophers. Highly critical both of religious fundamentalism, and at the same time blind faith in 'sociobiology', Midgley recently spoke to Three Monkeys Online. On the table for discussion were the role of philosophy, and the urgent need to change mankind's vision of the universe.

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• Capturing the Moment: Geoff Dyer in Interview

  Geoff Dyer's eclectic output -three novels and eight non-fiction books (on subjects as diverse as Jazz, Photography and John Berger) - has led to him being described as "quite possibly the best living writer in Britain" (Daily Telegraph). Alex Mitchell interviews Dyer, an 'intellectual nomad', for Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• The Final Word: Fictional spaces, Death and Literature. Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast trilogy

  Death as a fictionalised experience allies itself harmoniously with literary fiction. Both are spaces of invention and both seek to fill what is essentially an ever-present void of abstraction. A perfect example of the marriage between death and literary fiction is the Gormenghast Trilogy by writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake.

  
  
• Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy: Cosimo de’ Medici and Saint Peter Martyr.

  The Medici, powerful patrons of the arts in renaissance Florence, chose to be associated in portraits with the figure of Saint Peter Martyr, not to be confused with St. Peter the Apostle. The reasons for this choice are far from obvious, but this article by Dr. Catherine Lawless provides some possible answers, and a wonderful insight into the workings of myth, ritual, and politics in renaissance Florence.