08 January 2001
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Features
Star Wars in their eyes
Will Tony Blair resist attempts to put Yorkshire in the front line of a new US defence system? Or will it be left to the locals? Nick Cohen reports
Don't just lie there: reveal yourself!
You may think that a sofa is just a sofa. On the contrary, your choice of sofa (or settee or chaise longue) depends on who you think you are
A city ablaze in green and gold
Ben Plowden finds a surprising lesson in Portland, Oregon: that, to attract the smart business money, a city should restrict traffic and regulate ruthlessly
Reform the private schools
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Reform the private schools
On the dark side of the Valley
California, the home of the new economy, is also the site of hazardous work conditions and cheap, flexible labour. Salil Tripathireports
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Markets 'R' Us
Business is the new religion; in an extraordinary historical reversal, those who oppose it are arrogant elitists, frustrating the people's will
Regulars
What Ken did next
Is London running red with raw, rampant socialism? Hardly. So what is Livingstone up to? Jackie Ashley gets to the bottom of it
Culture
Marx's office
A study for communists, a job for Angus Wilson, a scene for a Hitchcock film: Tom Rosenthal on the BM Reading Room
Thank Evans
Jazz - Richard Cook on an influential pianist embattled by addiction
Television
Hit and miss
Television - Andrew Billen settles down on the sofa for a surfeit of Christmas drama and comedy
Books
A family affair. Robert Winder reads a new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, the first for 40 years, and wonders what happened to the flash and glitter of the book he loved
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, translated and edited by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 864pp, £20 ISBN 0713994606
Culture club
Smashing People Michael Fishwick Jonathan Cape, 250pp, £14.99 ISBN 0224061283
I'm a Madeira cake
The Constant Gardener John le Carre Hodder & Stoughton, 508pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340733373
A ventriloquist's tale
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Faber and Faber, 350pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571192165
Bloodsucking
The Peppered Moth Margaret Drabble Viking, 392pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670894001
