Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Mestizo Nation – It's all gone Pear shaped.

    Thankfully, the voices speaking out against the comments made by the ‘moderate’ President of the Senate, Marcello Pera, have been numerous. Amongst those criticising Pera’s warnings
  • Mestizo Nation – It’s all gone Pear shaped.

    Thankfully, the voices speaking out against the comments made by the ‘moderate’ President of the Senate, Marcello Pera, have been numerous. Amongst those criticising Pera’s warnings
  • I know Honor

    OK, picking on John Irving and now Sebastian Faulks might get me accused of shooting fish in the proverbial. But I couldn’t let this go. There’s a profile of the popular novelist in the la
  • They read them so you don’t have to

    Occasionally my friends mock me. There are plenty of reasons why they do so but one among many is that I sometimes make pronouncements on a book without having gone to the bother of actually reading t
  • Return of the zombie novelists

    Just when you thought they were gone, the novelists-from-the-eighties-who-the-critics-couldn’t-kill are back in force. First, we had Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park, now the writer that Ell
  • Funding Humanitarian Actions in Iraq

    Those left-wing, pinko-liberals will tell you that Italy’s military presence in Iraq [about 3,150 personnel] is part of an illegal occupation force. They’ll tell you that it’s all ab
  • Moderates, Mestizos, and the Centre Ground.

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve
  • Roman Earthquake – the end of the Holiday Season

    The View from Bologna, like many Italians, returns to work today after the traditional August vacation period. Bad weather coupled with uncompetitive prices appear to have hit the domestic Italian tou
  • Dishing it daily

    Walter Kirn is one of those critics whose writing is usually better than the stuff he’s reviewing. He shares James Wood’s knack for the pithy putdown (Wood on John Updike: “It seems