21 August 2000
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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
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - What are we doing to our children?
Parents dress as teenagers while pushing their toddlers into trashy adulthood, argues Bryan Appleyard
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
