Three Monkeys Online Magazine

Ed Kowalczyk talks to TMO

3Monkeys — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:20:44 +0000

Ed Kowalczyk, as former front man of the American rock band Live, has been responsible for some of the biggest and best known rock anthems of the ’90s. Songs like I Alone, Selling the Drama, Lightning Crashes, and Lakini’s Juice brilliantly mixed hard rock, melody and a lyricism that struck a chord with a generation. [...]

Inside Viola Di Grado’s Head

Kate Appleton — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:46:55 +0000

Viola di Grado is one of Italy’s most exciting and critically acclaimed new authors. Her debut novel Settanta acrilico trenta lana – published in english under the title 70% acrylic 30% wool – won the prestigious Premio Campiello Opera Prima prize (Previous winners include Alessandro Piperno and Paolo Giordano), and her second novel Cuore Cavo [...]

Mario Vargas Llosa takes a swing at Murakami, Auster, Kundera and Assange?

3Monkeys — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:07:56 +0000

Nobel laureate for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa is interviewed in the weekend edition of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, on the occasion of the Italian publication of his book La civilización del espectáculo (in Italian La civiltà dello spettacolo). His short book/pamphlet – not to be confused with Guy deBord’s The Society of the Spectacle - warns in [...]

The Age of Richard Nixon – a study in cultural power

Andrew Lawless — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:01 +0000

What do you think of when you think of Richard Nixon? Watergate, Vietnam, the televised debates with John .F. Kennedy? or perhaps you imagine the sweating, nervous, paranoiac portrayed by Antony Hopkins in Oliver Stone’s biopic Nixon? Images that emphasise his failures, that suggest a man unfit to be President, a villain and one thus [...]

Heartless Bastards – the interview

3Monkeys — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:13 +0000

Heartless Bastards, the band centred around the songwriting and vocal talents of Erika Wennerstrom, have been recording and touring for more than ten years now (they were signed to Fat Possum records back in 2004 after a demo was passed on by Patrick Carney of the Black Keys), but have only come to TMO’s attention [...]

Beautiful Noise – Helen Seymour Interview

Stephanie Lawless — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:28:43 +0000

‘Dublin,Ireland. 1985. A war is raging between The Government, RTE [the Irish state broadcaster] and the 28 illegal Pirate radio stations, who have taken control of the Nation’s airwaves and the advertising revenue that goes with it’- so reads the description on the cover of Helen Seymour’s debut novel, Beautiful Noise- a story about an [...]

From the Chalet School to Hunger Games

Amy Ellis-Thompson — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:02:59 +0000

How do British schoolgirl classics like the Chalet School and Mallory Towers translate to todays bestsellers like Twighlight and The Hunger Games? Amy Ellis-Thomas compares the stock situations and rhetoric of the 1950s boarding schools to today's equally codified young adult literature.

On Losing Iain Banks

Katie McDermott — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:26:27 +0000

“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That’s my score to date. Three. I haven’t killed anybody for years, and [...]

The Confidence of Youth – an extract

Mel Hegarty — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:10:57 +0000

The Confidence of Youth My friendship with McGiolla was in some ways the story of my college career. I met him towards the end of my first Michaelmas term, on a cold night in November 1990. At that stage, we were both heavily involved in the debating society – the debsoc – but had yet [...]

The Global Minotaur – Economist Yanis Varoufakis in interview

Andrew Lawless — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:36:33 +0000

Have you had the suspicion that simple narratives about subprime mortgages, last minute bail-outs, and sweaty-palmed bankers fail to adequately explain what has happened to the global economy since 2008? If so, then I can heartily recommend you pick up a copy of Yanis Varoufakis‘s The Global Minotaur – America, Europe and the Future of [...]