23 April 2001
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Features
Blessed are the pure in heart
The anti-globalisation left has little organisation, and no political programme. It is rooted in passion and moral resistance
The perils of Peter
What lies behind Mandelson's sudden and vigorous advocacy of home rule for the north-east? Peter Dunnreports
Good cop, bad cop
The American policeman, hero of TV and Hollywood, stands accused of trigger-happy racism in Cincinnati. Scott Lucassorts the man from the myth
The military invades the catwalk
This summer, it will be chic to look like a soldier, just as it was in the early 1990s. So should we expect a big war? Or a recession? Annalisa Barbieri reports
If it's art, it must be fake
Top auction houses now take a dubious view of everything on offer, reports Peter Watson
A stake worth holding?
From this month, salesmen will be offering the low-paid a new type of pension. But Martin Vander Weyersuspects that, as usual, only the rich will gain
Not the General Election
Instead of the campaign you were expecting, the New Statesman and the Institute for Public Policy Research bring you something better: the debates that the politicians always fudge. This week - equality
Real skeletons in the closet
In South Africa, the long legacy of apartheid means that even museum exhibits still provoke angry debates about racism, reports Bryan Rostron
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The rule of the chimpanzees
Authority is dead, killed off by television and tabloids. Politicians can now lead only if they also entertain
Culture
Taken to the cleaners
Pimps, prostitutes and Latino gangs: the LA underworld offered Paul Laverty the perfect setting in which to write the script for Ken Loach's new film, Bread and Roses
No garden party
Art - Sarah Jane Checkland on a show that does Patrick Heron no favours
Bach with bite
Music - Richard Sennett on Peter Sellar's staging of two cantatas
Television
Girl power
Television - Andrew Billen looks at how women have clawed their way to the top
Books
A warrior of words. The simple fact of his being the son of a famous writer lifted Martin Amis to the upper slopes of celebrity. His own haughty talent kept him there. But how good is he? By Robert Winder
The War Against Cliche Martin Amis Jonathan Cape, 506pp, £20 ISBN 0224050591
An American tragedy
The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy Century, 672pp, £16.99 ISBN 0712648178
The end of racism
The Problem of Race in the 21st Century Thomas C Holt Harvard University Press, 160pp, £15.95 ISBN 0674004434
Going underground
Tunnel Visions: journeys of an underground philosopher Christopher Ross Fourth Estate, 178pp, £12 ISBN 1841155667
The Mad Monk
Keith Joseph Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett Acumen, 480pp, £25 ISBN 190268303X
Missing the story. The book business has been shaken by mergers and consolidation, the disappearance of the local independent bookshop and by the internet. Two new books chart the way ahead
Amazon.com: get big fast (inside the revolutionary business model that changed the world) Robert Spector Random House Business Books, 271pp, £13.99 ISBN 0712684581
Terminal decrepitude
Book Business: publishing past, present and future Jason Epstein W W Norton, 188pp, £16.95 ISBN 0393049841
Novel of the week
Landor's Tower Iain Sinclair Granta, 345pp, £15.99 ISBN 1862070180
The sense of an ending
The Journey Home Olaf Olafsson Faber and Faber, 296pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571204740
