22 October 2001
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Cover story
A plan for the world
As the bombs fall and the missiles fly, we present: "A plan for the world". With Peter Jay, John Lloyd, Noreena Hertz, Julia Neuberger, Geoffrey Lean and others
Features
With friends like the Saudis . . .
Britain and the US have made a very bad bargain in the Middle East
Sultans of spin - or of truth?
Al-Jazeera television has led the way in exposing Arab power abuses
Get real, Britain, you're just a little sideshow
Nobody wants to attack us, just as nobody wanted to see our PM in Saudi Arabia. We should stop thinking that our role is so important, advises Andrew Stephen
The coffee grower's tale
A plan for the world - The coffee grower's tale
A vast work that will never end
A plan for the world - A vast work that will never end
Exclusion
A plan for the world - Exclusion
Trade
A plan for the world - Trade
Environment
A plan for the world - Environment
Health
A plan for the world - Health
Migration
A plan for the world - Migration
Poverty
A plan for the world - Poverty
Sarajevo goes for gold
After six years of war, the capital of Bosnia needs to restore its people's morale. What better way than through hosting the Olympics? John-Paul Flintoffreports
HM Opposition: a user's guide
Quentin Letts identifies the mysterious folk on the Tory front bench: a sometime nudist, a rozzer, a loudmouth
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Trevor Nunn
The outgoing National Theatre director on how his friendship with a critic turned sour and on why he once had a breakdown. Trevor Nunn interviewed
Culture
Pukka up
Our consuming passion for food is nowhere more clear than in our appetite for the Naked Chef. But, writes Bee Wilson, he offers comfort to a troubled nation
Postcards from abroad
Art - William Cook discovers that Turner is prized in Germany
Secular cathedrals
Museums - Catherine Croft on how New York's curators are documenting the city's disaster
You lookin' at me?
Advertising - Graham Bendel asks whether aggression is the new whiter than white
Theatre
Murphy's law
Theatre - Dominic Dromgoole on the tragic virtuosity of a great Irish playwright
Television
Refuge in the past
Television - Andrew Billen savours quality work by the new history men
Books
Towards arrogant eternity. Philip Larkin is often caricatured as a model of English miserabilism. But for Dan Jacobson he is a writer of grace and mystery, a master of self-division
Further Requirements Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite Faber and Faber, 392pp, £25 ISBN 0571209459
Buns of steel
The Corset: a cultural history Valerie Steele Yale University Press, 199pp, £29.95 ISBN 0300090714
The closing of the mind. The American civil war was about more than the preservation of the Union. It was a battle of ideas. By Kenan Malik
The Metaphysical Club: a story of ideas in America Louis Menand Flamingo, 480pp, £19.99 ISBN 0007126891
Darkness falls
Cultural Pessimism: narratives of decline in the postmodern world Oliver Bennett Edinburgh University Press, 220pp, £14.95 ISBN 0748609369
Paperback reader
All That Counts Georg Oswald Atlantic Books, 166pp, £9.99 ISBN 1903809177
Looking for mother
Flaubert: a life Geoffrey Wall Faber and Faber, 413pp, £25 ISBN 0571195210
Don't panic
Dad's Army Graham McCann Fourth Estate, 292pp, £16.99 ISBN 1841153087
Novel of the week
The Hard Shoulder Chris Petit Granta, 215pp, £12.99 ISBN 1862074623
The bush of ghosts
The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert William Heinemann, 391pp, 12.99 ISBN 009928717
