The Leopard and the Fox - Tariq Ali and the BBC

The year was 1986, the subject Pakistan and its military coup of 1977, and the outcome a thoroughly British case of cold war sponsored censorship by the BBC. Tariq Ali discusses with Three Monkeys Online the circumstances behind the censoring of his drama The Leopard and the Fox, the dramatic

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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

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The Fight to Choose- Italy's referendum on medically assisted conception.

Italy on Sunday 12th and Monday 13th of June will go to the polls in a referendum to vote on four motions modifying last year's law 40/2004 on medically assisted procreation. Or rather, some Italians will go to vote, while others will heed the advice offered by many of their elected representatives

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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 Be