21 August 2000
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From the Editor…
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Features
Why Posh's bunions will be news
Westminster - Mark Seddon
Can we love the Forsytes as before?
The remake of a classic serial about money and sex brings a tear to the eye of Malcolm Bradbury
You can't be liberal about sex abuse
Rebekah Wade's campaign has forced us to ask why we continue to give children's rights such a low priority
Why we still need the matchmaker
Hormone-induced, romantic love is no basis for lifelong happiness, argues Claire Rayner
Every parent's worst nightmare
More and more students are taking a gap year to travel and experience the exotic "other". Is it worth it, asks Duncan Parrish
The ayatollah replaces Zorba
A row over identity cards is giving the powerful Orthodox priests of Greece a chance to exploit a dangerous nationalism, reports Helena Smith
Downshifting to the Dolce Vita
New Yorker Michael D Rips tries to come to terms with the idiosyncrasies of life in rural Italy
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Top of the Pops
Louis Armstrong is the irreducible essence of 20th-century music. Richard Cookcelebrates the life and talent of the grand old man of jazz
A tale of two cities
Edinburgh Festival - Bob Flynn finds closed doors at the film events, but receives a warm welcome at the books venues
Washed-up
Music - John Harris rides the waves of The Beach Boys' changing fortunes
Television
How disgusting
Television - Andrew Billen finds that, sometimes, TV just isn't dirty enough
Books
The duty of genius. A misogynist and anti-Semite, the philosopher Otto Weininger was obsessed by decay. Jason Cowley on the brief life and work of a disturbed icon of fin-de-siecle Vienna
Otto Weininger: Sex, Science and Self in Imperial Vienna
Chandak Sengoopta University of Chicago Press, 248pp, £18.50
ISBN 0226748677
The longest journey
Yellow Fever: the dark heart of the Tour de France
Jeremy Whittle Headline, 307pp, £6.99
ISBN 0747260257
Latin fever
Magical Urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US big City
Mike Davis Verso, 193pp, £12
ISBN 1859847714
A Laboured death
A Sympathetic Hanging
Nigel Farndale Quartet, 240pp, £10
ISBN 0704381419
Old news
That Was Satire That Was
Humphrey Carpenter Victor Gollancz, 320pp, £20
ISBN 0575065885
Novel of the week
In a Dark Wood
Amanda Craig Fourth Estate, 276pp, £14.99
ISBN 1857026829
Observations
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