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
  • Twenty Years

    June 4th rolls around again…. Twenty years gone by. What a wild ride it’s been! It’s worth looking back on what life was like before the historical change. Mostly I remember the boredom and the
  • Paolo Giordano, Italian novelist, talks to tmo

    Paolo Giordano – Bridging the ‘two cultures’

    TMO interview with Premio Strega winning Italian novelist Paolo Giordano “A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought
  • World Leaders credit campaign of civil disobedience for Global Climate pact

    World leaders like Angela Merkel, Lula De Silva, and Ban Ki Moon appear on the front page of the ‘International Herald Tribune’ announcing a historic climate-saving deal. Full details here
  • From George Orwell to Vaclav Havel – translating the language of democracy

    Any English—speaker to whom Vaclav Havel has mattered owes a debt they’re probably unaware of to Paul Wilson. His work as the Czech writer’s translator began thirty years ago but I discover, ove
  • Litblog’s weekly tweets –

    Blogtrotter review of Michel Faber’s ‘The Fire Gospel’ http://bit.ly/U1dw4 # Litblogs on Kindle? A lot of fuss about nothing, according to the Literary Saloon http://bit.ly/t0vFq # I
  • Research

    Yesterday’s Gazeta Wyborcza had an article about the decline of the Irish economy. It’s headlined “Womens’ Spendthriftery Caused The Crisis” and consists of quotable quotes from people affec
  • Litblog’s Literary tweets – 18th – 24th May

    The Times takes a look at Faber’s history, as the publisher celebrates its 80th birthdayhttp://bit.ly/TrXZa # The telegraph turns great literature into tweetshttp://bit.ly/13tw5a # Ruth Padel is
  • Canterbury – Diamond Head

    Listening to Diamond Head’s most enduring of epics (although forgive the mild misnomer “epic” as it happens to be under 5 minutes long), offers the chance to discuss exactly why Stou
  • The Acid House by Irvine Welsh

    Frank O’Connor, one of the masters of the form, was repeatedly asked what differentiated a short story from a novel or novella, and over the course of his career he come up with some interesting