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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• ‘Keeping the Tempo’: The Orange Revolution Remembered

  In November 2004 Horatio Morpurgo flew into Kiev, on his way to report on a Nature reserve for an ecological magazine. By chance he found himself in the midst of the Orange revolution. Morpurgo gives his eye-witness account of the Ukranian Orange revolution to Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• America: From Colony to Superpower. Part I: 1776-1876

  In a three part essay, Colm McInerney looks at the development of the American system of Government. In this installment he examines the development from its Colonial beginings to the aftermath of the Civil War.

  
  
• The Gringo Trail - Mark Mann in interview

  Before Alex Garland's The Beach, Mark Mann wrote what remains the classic 'backpacking' novel, The Gringo Trail. A tragi-comic account of a trip through South America, blending Culture, Comedy, and Drugs.

  
  
• "Good writers do not write to flatter people’s good feelings" - Tomás Eloy Martínez in interview

  Argentinean author Tomás Eloy Martínez was one of the 18 writers on the longlist for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize this year, along with Garcia Marquez, Ian McEwan, Milan Kundera, and Margaret Atwood. His novels Santa Evita and La Novela de Perón(The Perón Novel) have been translated from their original Spanish into numerous languages including English. He is the head of the Latin American Studies programme at Rutgers University, and a noted journalist. He spoke recently to Three Monkeys Online about fiction, history, and the lines between them.

  
  
• 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.