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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Chechnya: Russia's Second Afghanistan

  Chechnya is once again in the news, as terrorist attacks in Beslan Ossetia shock the world. Here, in an analysis from PINR, Dr. Michael A. Weinstein of Purdue University analyses Russia's current position in Chechnya.

  
  
• Writing Against Terror - Nadeem Aslam

  In the wake of the London bombings, Nadeem Aslam's critically acclaimed novel Maps for Lost Lovers takes on a new relevance, set as it is in the Pakistani immigrant communities of the North of England. For Aslam, art and politics are not separate worlds, as he explains 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.

  
  
• N.A.T.O. Gladio, and the strategy of tension.

  That a clandestine paramilitary network, co-ordinated by N.A.T.O. existed throughtout Western Europe due the Cold War is a fact. Less clear is the relationship between this network and the wave of right-wing terrorism that swept across Europe in the '70s and '80s. Dr. Daniele Ganser, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has published the results of his extensive research into the network, and its links to terrorism. Until governments give full access to secret service archives from the Cold War period, he argues, elements of our current 'war on terror' remain prone to conspiracy theory.

  
  
• Talk of the Devil. Encounters with Seven Dictators by Ricardo Orizio, a review.

  Italian Journalist, Riccardo Orizio, dreamt of talking to two particular African Dictators. He managed, and embarked from there on a bizarre project, interviewing seven deposed Dictators.