Articles & Reviews by Shane Barry in Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• 2001 - A retrospective

  Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey

  
  
• Classic Albums - The Pogues Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

  Shane Barry takes a look back at 80's Ireland and its American obsessions, and finds genius in the fresh, traditional debut of the Pogues.

  
  
• Silver Daggers and Russian Dolls - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, in interview.

  David Mitchell's work, to date, has been both experimental and appealing to a broad public. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the booker prize (as was his second novel Number9dream). In interview with Shane Barry Mitchell discusses Cloud Atlas, genre, publishing and plans for his next novel.

  
  
• The Dark Heart of Italy - a review

  During the Italian European Union Presidency, Silvio Berlusconi once again shot to prominence all around Europe. Shane Barry reviews The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, whose thesis remains that Silvio Berlusconi is tied very much to that dark heart.

  
  
• As clear as mirror glass. John Banville in interview

  John Banville's latest novel, The Sea presents Max Morden, a recently widowed man, who returns to a sea-side resort to turn over fragments of his life. Banville discusses the work with Three Monkeys Online, alongside the wider topics of death, comedy, and book reviewing!

  
  
• Showing the Bones - Sean O'Reilly in Interview

  Included by some as part of a group of young Irish writers chronicling life in a vastly changed Ireland, Sean O'Reilly's novels The Swing of Things and Watermark are set in contemporary Dublin. O'Reilly, though, as he tells Shane Barry in interview, is more interested in character than place.

  
  
• Break, Blow, Burn - Camille Paglia discusses poetry

  Camille Paglia, since the publication of her first book Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, has stood out as one of America's leading, and controversial, intellectuals. Her latest book, Break, Blow, Burn- Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems gives a fascinating guide to a vital but marginalized art form. Professor Paglia discusses the book in interview with Shane Barry.

  
  
• The Game of War. Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle.

  Guy Debord was the leading French philosopher of the Situationist International. 10 years after his death, by suicide, his work The Society of the Spectacle seems ever more relevant, and has worked its way into the vocabulary of groups as diverse as anti-globalization protesters to Islamic separatists. Shane Barry spoke to biographer Dr. Andrew Hussey about this enduring relevance.

  
  
• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  Reviewed by Shane Barry




• The Constant Gardener
  Reviewed by Shane Barry




• Song for Katya by Kevin Stevens
  Reviewed by Shane Barry




• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  Reviewed by Shane Barry




• Kinsey
  Reviewed by Shane Barry