20 August 2001
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Features
Is Terry Wogan the new icon of global protest?
Westminster
Ulster enters the endgame
Sinn Fein has played its cards with such skill that the British are now locked into a process that will almost inevitably lead to Irish unity, argues John Lloyd
Where have all the tourists gone?
Unfounded fears about catching foot-and-mouth have combined with genuine concerns such as high prices to depress the travel industry
Eurocrats who despise the people
Jonathan Fenby, a lifelong Europhile, finds that his faith is now sorely tested
Do you speak New Labour?
Nick Cohen discovers a little-known pamphlet published by Jessica Mitford in 1956 and finds a little updating helps him understand politicians today
Economic crisis? Not for the rich
As inequalities grow, Japan is starting to look rather like Britain and the US
Culture
When the living is easy
Summer Special - Jan Morris remembers an idyllic summer of gatecrashing and fantasy
When the living is easy
Summer Special - John Gray follows the Etruscan example and rediscovers the art of living
When the living is easy
Summer Special - Kathryn Hughes feels uncomfortable in her skin from June to September
When the living is easy
Summer Special - Bonnie Greer discovers the hidden France of Hemingway and the Commune
When the living is easy
Summer Special - Peter Carey flies home to Australia after 27 years as a resident alien in the States
Up staging
Edinburgh Festival - Stephen Smith makes his debut at the greatest audience show on earth
Cool things to do when it's hot
Festivals edited
Film
Planet Hollywood
Film - Philip Kerr finds living proof of the descent of man in this latest cinematic turkey
Books
The point of no return. Travel writing was once defined as an "Old Etonian on a bicycle in Stavanger". Robert Winder on an exhausted genre that seems to be going nowhere in particular
The Picador Book of Journeys Edited by Robyn Davidson Picador, 477pp, £16 ISBN 0330368621
Aristocratic rebels
The Three Roosevelts: the leaders who transformed America James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn Atlantic Books, 678pp, £25 ISBN 1903809088
Novel of the week
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier HarperCollins, 401pp, £12.99 ISBN 0007108257
Hunting the Yorkshire Ripper
Who says no one is writing well about contemporary Britain? With the publication of Nineteen Eighty, David Peace has completed his ambitious sequence of novels about 1970s England, a "decade of crime and corruption". Nicola Upson talks to a writer, resident in Tokyo, who remains haunted by the murders that traumatised his childhood
Gogolian farce
Russia and the Russians: a history Geoffrey Hosking Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 736pp, £25 ISBN 0713995149
Paperback reader
The Adversary Emmanuel Carrere Bloomsbury, 216pp, £6.99 ISBN 0747551898
