24 September 2001
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Cover story
The war that Bush cannot win
Terror in America: Washington - The US, waving its flag as a symbol of aggression, believes its enemy is a lone and jealous crackpot. It is dangerously wrong. Andrew Stephen reports
Features
Free hugs for all and love, love, love
Terror in America: New York - Peter Pringle hopes the sudden epidemic of civility in New York will herald a changed America
A choice between Satan and madmen
Terror in America: Pakistan - Ziauddin Sardar on the awful dilemmas of a country in such trouble that it is basically run by the international banks
Why Muslims are always in turmoil
Terror in America: Islam - The Prophet's followers believe that they should be among the world's great successes
The British Bin Laden
Terror in America: The Mullah - Johann Hari meets Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic fanatics' main apologist in the UK, and finds his warped rhetoric oddly banal
Cries of rage and frustration
Terror in America: Fundamentalism - The US is the true home of religious extremism, which begins not as a crusade against outsiders, but as hatred of those of the same faith
The Voice of the Nation pipes down
Terror in America: The Question Time Row - Greg Dyke's apology for broadcasting anti-US views was a betrayal, argues John Lloyd
Blair secures his flank against the right
Terror in America: Britain - Jackie Ashley, our political editor, reports that the PM is gung-ho, but gives thanks that he seems to know what he's doing
The power and the pathos
Terror in America: Essay 1 - Pankaj Mishra, half in love with America, pitied the Muslim jihadis he met because they would never know its generosity. But now, they can exult
The era of globalisation is over
Terror in America: Essay 2 - Communism failed, but market liberalism then tried to impose its own utopia. The atrocities should mark the end of that crusade
How Aga louts won the battle for rural England
Proud of their social consciences, delighted that the shops now stock stuffed olives, the urban rich dominate the countryside
The man who spoke to the people
Jude Kellyexplains why J B Priestley, reviled by the intelligentsia, now deserves a revival
Regulars
"It's all over for the global economy," they shout. But why are some people whispering in the corner?
Terror in America: The Economy
Bush tells us America loves democracy. Yeah, right. What about its backing of Pinochet and the contras?
Terror in America: Comment
Culture
Smile! You're on canvas
Corsets, deodorants, cigars, condoms - the Mona Lisa has been used to endorse them all. Donald Sassoon ponders how one of high culture's most consecrated icons became the plaything of the mass market
Moved to tears
Music - Stephen Pollard argues that context is all, whether it's Beethoven, Barber or Verdi
Rock of ages
Art - Sue Hubbard finds long-hidden medieval sculptures resting on new plinths at Tate Britain
Theatre
Bad Hare day
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones wonders if Chekhov's immature Platonov is worth adapting
Television
Love in a cold climate
Television - Andrew Billen relishes the writing in a drama of gay meets straight
Books
Of laughter and forgetting. Democratic politics depends on a pre-political loyalty, a sense of "us" that is defined by contrast to "them". Roger Scruton on the dilemmas of national identity
Czechoslovakia: the short goodbye Abby Innes Yale University Press, 352pp, £25 ISBN 0300090633
Girls just wanna have fun
One-Hit Wonder Lisa Jewell Penguin, 450pp, £6.99 ISBN 0140295968 Babyville Jane Green Michael Joseph, 456pp, £12.99 Looking for Andrew McCarthy Jenny Colgan HarperCollins, 324pp, £9.99 A Kept Woman Louise Bagshawe Orion, 408pp, £5.99
Like father like scum
Lucky Him: the life of Kingsley Amis Richard Bradford Peter Owen, 448pp, £22.50 ISBN 0720611172
Convert to Islam
The Lost Messiah: in search of Sabbatai Sevi John Freely Viking, 275pp, £20 ISBN 0670886750
Paperback reader
A Short Walk Down Fleet Street Alan Watkins Duckbacks, 311pp, £6.99 ISBN 0715629107
A butler's work
Zeno and the Tortoise: how to think like a philosopher Nicholas Fearn Atlantic Books, 187pp, £9.99 ISBN 1903809134
Hitler-fanciers
The Mitford Girls: the biography of an extraordinary family Mary S Lovell Little, Brown, 611pp, £20 ISBN 0316858684
Novel of the week
The Anatomy School Bernard MacLaverty Jonathan Cape, 355pp, £15.99 ISBN 0224062026
