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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Using Genre to Effect - Neil Gaiman

  Anansi Boys is the latest novel from English writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman, the author of the influential Sandman comic series, acclaimed novel American Gods, and a number of Film and TV scripts talks to Three Monkeys about genre hopping.

  
  
• Defending History - Deborah E. Lipstadt and Holocaust Denial

  Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt became a household name when David Irving sued her for libel. The trial, Irving vs Lipstadt, in a sense, put the Holocaust on trial. Irving lost his case, with the court accepting that he had "persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence", and that he was an "active Holocaust denier". Lipstadt, in interview with Three Monkeys Online, discusses the persistence of Holocaust denial, methods of teaching the Holocaust, and 'soft-core denial'.

  
  
• 'Return of the Red Card: Israel-China-U.S. Triangle

  Tension in the US-Israel relations has resurfaced over the issue of arms and technology sales with China. This report, drafted by the PINR, examines the competing needs of Israeli foreign policy to develop an independent arms export policy, and to remain in Washington's good books.

  
  
• Birth Crisis - Sheila Kitzinger on Birth in the 21st Century

  Birth in Western Europe and America has become a heavily medicalised event, where women entrust themselves and their babies to a team of medics who, with the aid of technology and science, manage the dangers of birth. Why, though, are so many women traumatised by the whole process? Sheila Kitzinger, who has been described as the 'high-priestess' of the birthing movement explains what she means by 'birth crisis' to Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• 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.