07 June 1999
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Cover story
Europe grows after Kosovo
The war has dragged the EU centre-stage. Will its members know, asks John Lloyd, what to do with their new-found importance?
Features
Just a small skirmish in Kashmir?
John Elliotton why the India-Pakistan border is suddenly the world's most dangerous place
I found the Serbs' blind spot
In Belgrade, Lindsey Hilsummeets well-educated, middle-class Serbs who don't believe the war in Kosovo has anything to do with them
Brits should be more like Italians
There are many lessons to be learnt from the creators of the dolce vita, writesCarla Powell
We want fettucine, not baked beans
Expats are bringing the good life across the Channel to Britain
Apartheid and other tourist trails
Visiting Soweto reminds Christopher Hopeof how much, and how little, has changed in South Africa
What Spitting Image did for Hague
Political satire isn't going to change the world, but John O'Farrell believes the Tory leader wouldn't be where he is today without the help of comedians
A day in the life of a grass-roots Tory
Still shell-shocked and wounded, Conservative activists are using the European elections to rally the troops. Duncan Parrish infiltrated their ranks
Buy girls and keep Castro in power
Cuba is the new tourist destination. But every visitor's dollar reinforces Fidel's dictatorship
New Media Awards
Nominations for the New Statesman's New Media Awards closed on 1 June. Sean French and Thom Cooper review two of the nominated sites, upmystreet.com and CrisisWeb, while Bill Thompson profiles Eva Pascoe, competition judge and e-commerce advocate.
Angry bull takes on ears of rice
Indonesians face their first democratic election since 1965. Jeremy Grosson the hard choices
Essay
The NS Essay - Good drugs, bad drugs
Joshua Wolf Shenk on the fractured logic behind America's war on narcotics
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Peter Hain
"We need to spell out to voters that Labour is following a radical socialist programme". Peter Hain interviewed
Culture
Old labour
They were called radio-ballads, and they hymned the virtues of both work and working folk. David Jays revisits the songs and sounds of a lost world
Citizen's rites
Film byJonathan Romney
Stone aged
Rock byRichard Cook
Powers of suggestion
Classical byDermot Clinch
About face
Art byJames Hall
Less is more
Design byHugh Aldersey-Williams
Books
An Englishman in New York. Tina Brown wanted an elegant hatchet man to edit the New Yorker magazine's keynote Talk of the Town section. What she got was a blimpish journalist who knew nothing of New York
Some Times in America Alexander Chancellor Bloomsbury, 320pp, £16.99
Bearded wonder
Noel Edmonds: the unauthorised biography Alison Bowyer Virgin Publishing, 200pp, £14.99
Lost leader
In My Own Time Jeremy Thorpe Politicos, 234pp, £18
Driven by furies
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame Benita Eisler Hamish Hamilton, 835pp, £25
Novel of the week
The Blue Bedspread Raj Kamal Jha Picador, 228pp, £12.99
Letting off steam
Akhenaten Dorothy Porter Serpent's Tail, 300pp, £8.99 Time to Kill Sparrows: a kaleidoscope of verse by diplomats and their families Peter Hinchcliffe (editor) The Book Guild Ltd, 128pp, £14.99 Shakespeare in Love: the love poetry of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Faber & Faber, 169pp, £4.99
Sad little Willy
Everything You Know Zoe Heller Viking, 198pp, £9.99
Commentary - A new way of reading
Antony Easthope defends critical theory from its author-obsessed detractors
