03 September 2001
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Features
Abroad, the British are all humbug
Westminster
Charles, the miserable sinner
John Lloyd goes to church at Balmoral with the royals and asks if the kirk arouses the same dark memories in the heir to the throne as it does in him
For a black farmer, the dream is over
In Zimbabwe, the wrong party, not the wrong race, makes you a target, reports Lindsey Hilsum
"Hi, it's Tony. How are the cows?"
Death trucks in the lane, a terrible stench over the land, phone calls (allegedly) from No 10: Peter Dunn sees foot-and-mouth arrive on his doorstep
It's the rich wot get the blame
Chaucer, Jane Austen, Martin Amis: all show capitalists as greedy and wicked. Aggrieved business leaders want a rewrite. Nick Cohen is unsympathetic
My pop idol had feet of clay
When Michael Hann saw through his hero, he began to doubt his own identity
A notebook for Mr Biswas
V S Naipaul now argues that the welfare state has created an army of thugs. But, once, his enlightened views on culture and society inspired Amitava Kumar
Culture
Capital of memory
In the ancient library of Alexandria, scholars first calculated the circumference of the earth and mapped the stars. And then it was lost. As its eccentric successor rises in this Egyptian seaport, will anyone use it, asks Helena Smith
Goerne's turn
Music - Patrick O'Connor on the singer who can make Schoenberg pleasurable
Theatre
World service
Theatre - Dominic Dromgoole on how drama brings us the news that other media shirk from reporting
Television
Liddiment's lament
Television - Could the BBC's populism be the cause of ITV's woes? Andrew Billen doubts it
Books
The cliché of love. Nothing prepares you for the visceral shock of motherhood. Suzanne Moore reads a "post-feminist" tract and asks why women are always left holding the baby
A Life's Work: on becoming a mother Rachel Cusk Fourth Estate, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 1841154865
No hiding place
Silence of the Heart: cricket suicides David Frith Mainstream, 256pp, £15.99 ISBN 184018406X
More war stories
Five Boys Mick Jackson Faber and Faber, 248pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571206131
Food fantasies
Simone Weil Francine du Plessix Gray Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 246pp, £14.99 ISBN 0297646273
A ship of fools
The Many-Headed Hydra: the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Verso, 433pp, £19 ISBN 1859847986
Novel of the week
The Devil's Larder Jim Crace Penguin, 194pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670881457
Paperback reader
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things J T LeRoy Bloomsbury, 247pp, £6.99 ISBN 0747554234
The end of privacy
Dangerous Data Adam Lury and Simon Gibson Bantam Press, 272pp, £9.99 ISBN 0593047419
