Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Playing with Fire, part II

    In the alternative reality presented in The Plot Against America, the relocation of America�s Jewish population�including the narrator�s family�under the Homestead 42 scheme is seen one of the
  • Silence of the film-makers?

    It’s rare that this monkey feels the need to defend Sig. Silvio Berlusconi, but reading this week’s Lettera dall’Italia in Internazionale, written by film critic Deborah Young, I hav
  • Playing with Fire, part 1

    OK, first off, Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America is an entertaining work, its ‘counterfactual’ premise evoking for me those yellow-jacketed Gollancz sci-fi novels that I borrowe
  • Jihadismo, Pimpaggio, & Zapaterizzazione – Neologisms

    A new report from England, on the effects of texting on literacy, will be of some comfort to Italy’s cultural guardians. The study, conducted at the the department of communication and science a
  • Jihadismo, Pimpaggio, & Zapaterizzazione – Neologisms

    A new report from England, on the effects of texting on literacy, will be of some comfort to Italy’s cultural guardians. The study, conducted at the the department of communication and science a
  • Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

    As someone obliged to regard the artistic endeavours of my (oh so advanced) three-and-a-half year-old daughter with the frowning awe of a latter-day Clement Greenberg, I found this odd project weirdly
  • Like a blank slate – Marching against Iran

    Last night in Rome ten to fifteen thousand people marched in a candlelit procession to the Iranian embassy, to protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that ‘Israe
  • The day of the dead – Pier Paolo Pasolini

    November the 2nd is, across the Catholic world, the day of the dead, a day when families visit the final resting places of their dearly departed, physically or metaphorically. Thirty years ago today,
  • Lazy link II

    Review of The Constant Gardener now available here. Capsule review: Good, but could have been even better.