28 June 1999
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Buy your home and kill a job
Andrew Oswald argues that all the usual explanations for unemployment are completely wrong
Features
Now the Serbs need our help
We have got it wrong again. Kosovo should have many more troops
Who will now master the universe?
John Lloyd meets a Serb agent, close to the Russians, and learns that the world is newly and dangerously divided
Why I hate dinner parties now
You're middle-aged and out of a job. So you're a nobody, finds Tony Rennell
The French exception is on a roll
Lionel Jospin has snubbed the Third Way - with excellent results, writes David Lawday
An open letter to new labour
Please stop patronising us. Anthony Barnett implores ministers to stop treating all their supporters as though they were circus horses
Once more, we are learning to die in public
A cardinal, a TV playwright and several columnists have started a new fashion in death. Peter Stanford reports
New Media Awards
Mark Sellman reviews the "Virtual Economy" website and Bill Thompson profiles Scott Aikens, Merit Award nominee
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Mistaken identities
An Aids sufferer whose symptoms were fake. A Holocaust victim who was never in a death camp. What drives people to reinvent themselves so drastically? Rebecca Abrams measures the fine line between private lives and public fictions
Love bites
Rock byRichard Cook
Russian soul
Classical byDermot Clinch
China crisis
Film byJonathan Romney
Books
The lust for blood. What triggers landmark events in history is often fictions that people believe, not events that actually took place
Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews
Miri Rubin Yale University Press, 266pp, £25
White lines
Novel with Cocaine
M Ageyev Penguin, 204pp, £7.99
Marching boys
The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions
Ruth Dudley Edwards HarperCollins, 288pp, £17.99
Fond, foolish Freddie
A J Ayer: A Life
Ben Rogers Chatto & Windus, 402pp £20
Novel of the week
The Lone Woman
Bernado Atxaga, translated by Margaret Jull Costa The Harvill Press, 120pp, £8.99
Ways of seeing
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Nathan Englander Faber & Faber, 208pp, £9.99
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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