07 January 2002
Become a subscriber and save £££
Subscribe to the New Statesman for just £87 and receive a free gift.
From the Editor…
Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly
Cover story
Will he, won't he?
As the Queen prepares to mark her Golden Jubilee, Johann Hari reveals startling evidence of a royal refusenik at the heart of her family
Features
Alas my poor peso, soon to be just junk
Isabel Hilton on how Argentina fell victim to the false promises of globalisation
America's very own Muslims
Top basketball players, heroes to millions, are converting to Islam. So does the US shelter an army of home-grown Richard Reids? Andrew Stephen reports
Could the war games come true?
US think-tanks have been simulating a new India-Pakistan conflict for years. In almost nine out of ten cases, the outcome is nuclear
Revolution by candlelight
Terry Eagleton, recalling the days when he optimistically leafleted car factories, argues that socialism, though defeated, has not been invalidated
A reluctant people see the bigger picture
When the D-mark began in 1948, central Europe's most stable currency was the cigarette. No wonder Germans regret its passing. Tim Luckhurst reports
Culture
Samurai warrior
The director Akira Kurosawa influenced many of the west's most famous film-makers. Philip Kerr sizes up Japan's original action man
Magnum Oprah
The Great American Novel - Bonnie Greer sees the The Corrections as part of the Bush project to return the US to its "core values"
Holiday blues
Music - Richard Cook laments the premature decline of a legend shadowed by sadness
Books
The silence of the heart. As religious terrorists fall from the skies, and suicide bombings increase in Sri Lanka and the Middle East, Michael Waterhouse considers our ancient urge for self-destruction
The Art of Suicide Ron M Brown Reaktion Books, 253pp, £25 ISBN 1861891059
Same old story
And Then You Die Michael Dibdin Faber and Faber, 166pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571210325 Resurrection Men Ian Rankin Orion, 440pp, £17.99
An advertising man
Nelson: the man and the legend Terry Coleman Bloomsbury, 234pp, £20 ISBN 0747556857
From double helix to double-cross
Genes, Girls and Gamow James D Watson Oxford University Press, 304pp, £18.99 ISBN 0198509766
No reputation is more than snowfall
Jason Cowley on the new year in books
