06 August 2001
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Cover story
The Murdochs: a family saga
Now into his seventies, Rupert Murdoch is enjoying the greatest success of an extraordinary career. But who will inherit his empire?
Features
Why do the media love fascists?
The British National Party is delighted with the soft coverage it is getting from programmes such as Today and Newsnight. And no wonder
We're just hedonistic hamsters
A US study proves that old chestnut - money can't buy you happiness
A world left behind by the rest of South Africa
Despite Archbishop Tutu's talk of a rainbow coalition, Cape Town is still uneasy about its multiracial society, reports Bryan Rostron
Mandelson's latest make-over
There's a new Geordie lilt to the Sultan of Spin's vowels, observes Andy McSmith
Culture
Midnight's children
Summer films - This month, it will be 54 years since Partition. Salil Tripathi shows how Bollywood is only now able to tackle the taboo subject of India's relationship with Pakistan
Future imperfect
Film 2 - Steven Poole is unconvinced by the first entirely computer-generated feature film
Thatcher the dinosaur
Film 3 - Philip Kerr says third time lucky for the makers of Jurassic Park
Taking a world view
Art - Paul Bonaventura is concerned about the globalising aspirations of major festivals
Green-eyed monsters
Opera - Patrick O'Connor compares hit-and-miss performances of Verdi's Otello
Television
You've gotta have one
Television - Zoe Williams is pained by the whole birthing experience
Books
Who killed Dr Glock? "Archaeology is not a science, it is a vendetta." Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the assassination of an American who became caught up in the land disputes of the Middle East
Palestine Twilight: the murder of Dr Albert Glock and the archaeology of the Holy Land Edward Fox HarperCollins, 283pp, £19.99 ISBN 0002556073
Everything but the bloke
Instances of the Number 3 Salley Vickers Fourth Estate, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 1841156582
I love drag
Sexually Speaking: collected sex writings Gore Vidal (edited by Donald Weise) Cleis Press, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 1573441201
Poet behaving badly
Little Green Man Simon Armitage Viking, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670894427
Spies like us
Brits: the war against the IRA Peter Taylor Bloomsbury, 446pp, £20 ISBN 0747550077
Paperback reader
Super-Cannes J G Ballard Flamingo, 392pp, £6.99 ISBN 0006551602
Novel of the week
A Perfect Arrangement Suzanne Berne Viking, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670910805
