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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• The Shaman from Harvard - Wade Davis in interview

  He's written about the Amazon, South American History and Politics, Zombification, traditional drug use - the list goes on. Wade Davis, of National Geographic talks to 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.

  
  
• This is getting serious - The US anti-missile shield, seen from the Czech Republic.

  What has the Czech Republic to gain, or, equally importantly, to lose from the installation of the US anti-missile shield system on its soil? Questions posed by Padraig McGraith, who lives a mere bomb-blast away from Jínce u Příbrami, one of the proposed sites for the system.

  
  
• ''Iraq's Perilous Election and the Need for Exit Strategies''

  In the runup to Iraq's general elections that decide who will sit on the 275-member national assembly, Baghdad's course toward that end grows more perilous each day. In a special report drafted by the PINR, Erich Marquardt analyses the run up to the election, and viable exit strategies for the US military.

  
  
• Gendered Monsters - Art and politics in the representation of St. George and the Dragon

  Dr. Samantha Riches discovered, almost by accident, a significant and intriguing tradition of clearly depicting St. George's dragon with a gender (usually female). In interview with Three Monkeys Online she discusses that tradition, and its possible motives.