Three Monkeys Online

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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • No, I was not invited

    From the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award site:”The winner was announced by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Michael Conaghan in City Hall, Dublin on Wednesday 15th June.In their co
  • Theo-Cons, neo-guelphs and the realities of abstention.

    25.9% of Italians voted in Sunday and Monday’s referendum on the law 40/2004 on assisted procreation. That’s less than one in four Italians entitled to vote. And yet, in the last number of
  • A challenge

    Bloodaxe Books were kind enough to send me a copy of J.H. Prynne’s massive Poems, which weighs in at 590 pages and covers work spanning from 1968 up to 2004.A fellow of Gonville & Caius (th
  • Codplay

    I’ve just been listening to Damon Albarn on the radio (listen here) criticize the lineup at the Live8 concerts for being “Anglo-Saxon”: far too white and middle-class. Of course, Alb
  • Berlusconi the Buffoon, or the theory of the intelligent Cavaliere

    While there are those who comfort themselves in the depths of the night with the idea that il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister and one of the world's richest men, is, simp
  • The high cost of cleverness

    I’m still pondering the possible implications of a report from a group of researchers from the University of Utah (see here and here) that suggests that the high intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews m
  • Link-o-rama

    Here’s an olla podrida of links to book-related articles–gleaned from many man-hours of meticulous surfing–which I thought were worth sharing:Starting on a note of unrelenting gravit
  • Spicy king prawns (or 'The shrimp, The hot, The pepper')

    I grant you: this is a very general title for a recipe, and there are million of variations on the theme, that's why I wanted to add a subtitle. A couple of years ago I had a great and interestin