20 November 1998
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
A prejudice as American as apple pie
A new film that depicts Arabs as blood-thirsty terrorists is creating a storm in the States. Charles Glass, in New York, sees a sinister reason for its success
Features
Please spare us this golf club bore
Alistair Cooke has been our man in America since 1938.Quentin Lettsbegs him to stop
Today's women and yesterday's men
Female pornography is supposed to mark a new chapter in gender relations. So why does Mr Darcy keep rearing his coiffeured head, asks Matt Barnard
Hard times for the lucky and the lazy
Where is British politics heading? David Halpern found some answers at a Harvard seminar
How to cut energy use without pain
John Prescott insists that we can remain prosperous and still beat global warming
What's humanitarian about this aid?
The US has imposed on Russia an aid package that will leave the country poorer but American farmers richer. Anne Applebaum reports from Moscow
Regulars
Arts & Culture
The shock of the Brew
Breakthrough or blind alley? Exotic or extraneous? Miles Davis's Bitches Brew sessions still divide the jazz house. Richard Cook hears a lavish new boxed set
Good enough
Opera
Towering imbroglio
Film
Quiet, please
Modern Times
Books
The darkness at noon for Arthur Koestler was in his heart. Yet his early work, inspired by his disillusionment with communism, will survive the memory of his unlovable personality
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
David Cesarani Heinemann, 646pp, £25
A gilded brand
The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1,309pp, £30
The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty
Frederic Morton Kodansha International, 332pp, $16
Spanking good copper
Manners
Robert Newman Hamish Hamilton, 320pp, £9.99
Monopolies of loss
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 356pp, £20
Novel of the week
A man in Full
Tom Wolfe Jonathan Cape, 742pp, £20
Commentary - Step forward, Mr Motion
Michael Glover wonders who is best placed to toady to order as the next poet laureate
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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