17 September 2001
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Features
The beginning of a virtual revolution
Terror in America - The US arouses in billions of people the same kind of murderous fury that led to the French and Russian revolutions. But this time, it's on TV. By John Lloyd
The day that nobody would take charge
Terror in America - In the hours after the hijackings, the Bush administration seemed to desert the country. Andrew Stephenasks if the president can now provide better national leadership
The end of the open society?
Terror in America - Frances Stonor Saunders on how the CIA stands to gain from its own incompetence
Where is the hand of my God in this horror?
Terror in America - An ordinary Muslim, Ziauddin Sardar cannot recognise his religion in either the fanatics' deeds or in the media descriptions of "these people"
In Georgetown, even the privileged quake
Terror in America
Why is Bin Laden still at large?
Terror in America - The man blamed for Tuesday's atrocities has struck America before. The mystery is why the US hasn't simply seized him. Michael Griffin reports
Neither joy nor love nor light?
Britain looks set to become the world's first post-Christian society. But what beast, slouching towards Bethlehem, will take over?
Why the rural millions love a dictator
In Belarus, the re-election of the autocratic president was probably rigged. But is the US right to finance the opposition? Alice Lagnado reports
The great tuition fee scandal
Blair's policies keep the less affluent out of university; they also ensure that, even if they get there, they end up with poor degrees
One strike, Tony, and you may be out
The TUC knows how to threaten the PM on the public-private issue. Jackie Ashley reports
It's a window! It's a gate! It's the euro!
The French are cheerful about giving up the franc. It's less than 200 years old and it was always changing anyway
Welcome to our torture chamber
South Africa may want to forget its past, but there is money to be made in the theme parks and museums of the apartheid era
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The rout of the stakeholders
Whatever happened to Will Hutton's vision of "a less degenerate capitalism"? Richard Roberts & David Kynaston on how the City tightened its grip on Britain
Regulars
Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims
Terror in America
When the fall of the towers seems like a bad dream, we will still suffer the impact on our living standards
Terror in America
Arts & Culture
Height of fashion
They grew up in the postwar cities, offering a clean, air-conditioned respite and a cheeseburger. But, says Annabel Jane Wharton, the Hilton Hotels were also designed for political impact
Emotional landscapes
Music - Jason Cowley on why Bjork's voice is like an icepick to the heart
Czech list
Opera - Patrick O'Connor on the extraordinary career of Leos Janacek
Television
On another planet
Television - Andrew Billen finds it hard to believe in the psychic detective
Books
Between the acts. Ian McEwan is perhaps the most technically accomplished of all modern British writers, but there is still something missing from his work. By Robert Winder
Atonement
Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 372pp, £16.99
ISBN 0224062522
Sins of the fathers
Interrogations: the Nazi elite in allied hands, 1945
Richard Overy Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 650pp, £25
ISBN 0713993502
Woman with no agenda
Madonna: queen of the world
Douglas Thompson John Blake Publishing, 290pp, £16.99
ISBN 1903402522
Auntie Alan. The cult of Alan Bennett, the nation's favourite teddy bear, is tiresome, writes Adam Newey. He is provincial, class-obsessed and nostalgic
Backing into the Limelight: the biography of Alan Bennett
Alexander Games Headline, 320pp, £18.99
ISBN 0747270309
Loving Lorna
Moments of Truth: twelve twentieth-century women writers
Lorna Sage Fourth Estate, 272pp, £15
ISBN 1841156353
More mummy lit
Misconceptions: truth, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood
Naomi Wolf Chatto & Windus, 282pp, £12.99
ISBN 0701167270
Still gloomy after all these years
The Verdict of Peace: Britain between her yesterday and the future
Correlli Barnett Macmillan, 736pp, £20
ISBN 0333679822
Paperback reader
Loco: advice for travellers
John Binias Macmillan, 243pp, £9.99
ISBN 0333905652







