10 September 2001
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Features
How far dare they go?
As a producer thinks of putting volunteers in the positions of Nazis and Jews, John Lloyd, brought up on the old BBC, considers the limits of reality TV
Bring the BBC to heel
Who cares whether Baroness Jay or Gavyn Davies is the new corporation chairman? We should just get rid of the governors, argues David Cox
How I learnt to keep quiet in Bonn
Now we've beaten them 5-1, can we accept that Germans are ordinary?
Marriages that really are for ever
Formal gay unions were celebrated in London in the 1720s; now, thanks to Livingstone, they are back. And research shows they will last
The book you're not allowed to read
Peter Dunnon Harold Evans and Tina Brown, and the US account of their union that, thanks to our libel laws, you can't buy even from Amazon.com
Japan's youth runs out of control
In a recession-hit country, despairing young people refuse to leave their rooms for weeks, months, even years at a time. Victoria Jamesreports
In a corner of a foreign field
Why are refugees so eager to cross the Channel? If they are in Calais, they are already in England - and they won't be locked up
If India can, why can't we?
You may think that we have nothing to learn from some of the poorest people on the planet. But when it comes to education, James Tooleybegs to differ
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The love of a robot
Is it really possible, as a new film suggests, that artificial intelligence like David (from AI: Artificial Intelligence) will experience emotions of loneliness, jealousy and fear?
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Bill Morris
Britain's best-known trade unionist wants managed immigration, and will help the Lib Dems to fight privatisation. Bill Morris interviewed
Culture
Vile bodies
He pays his subjects to strip, then exposes their naked dereliction to the chattering classes of the west. Sue Hubbard asks the controversial Russian photographer Boris Mikhailov if he's just a voyeur
Private worlds
Art - Sue Steward on how work by outsiders turns the canon inside out
Making a mint
Opera - Tom Rosenthal on how the Belgians have struck gold on a modest budget
Theatre
Sisters doing it for themselves
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a portrayal of sublime ennui that is never boring
Film
Ghosts in the machine
Film - Philip Kerr on how Steven Spielberg has delivered a really intelligent vision of the future
Television
15 seconds of shame
Television - Andrew Billen on the talentless who, one way or other, are bound to be stars
Books
Escape to New York. Is Salman Rushdie's new novel no more than playful self-indulgence, or is it the mark of a writer in terminal decline? By James Wood
Fury Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 259pp, £16.99 ISBN 0224061593
Only pets win prizes
Oxygen Andrew Miller Sceptre, 325pp, £14.99 ISBN 0340728256
All gong and no dinner
The Reconstructionist Josephine Hart Chatto & Windus, 224pp, £14.99 ISBN 0701172959
A modern master
All Families Are Psychotic Douglas Coupland Flamingo, 279pp, £9.99 ISBN 0007117515
Sex tourism
The "most exciting writer in Europe" is back. Gerry Feehily, in Paris, reads Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme, the follow-up to Atomised, and a work already denounced in France as "misogynist filth"
Stupendous Mr Johnson
According to Queeny Beryl Bainbridge Little, Brown, 242pp, £16.99 ISBN 0715629239
Apartheid of the heart
The Pickup Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury, 268pp, £16.99 ISDN 0747554277
Boy's own story
A Gentleman's Game Tom Coyne Atlantic, 264pp, £15 ISBN 1903809053
Paperback reader
The Strange World of Thomas Harris David Sexton Short Books, 157pp, £4.99 ISBN 0571208452
