21 January 2002
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Features
The twilight of the left
Throughout western Europe, the right is enjoying a resurgence. The brief supremacy of social democracy is over. John Lloyd reports
Why I hate our official art
Ivan Massow, chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, reveals that he is fed up with toeing the totalitarian line dictated by Serota, Saatchi and co
Our guilt gives Mugabe a green light
Zimbabwe's dictator gets away with murder by playing on our past
How horses and planes beat the Toyota pick-up
Kate Clark reveals the hitherto unrecognised role of transport, old and new, in the Afghan war
Just making a dishonest buck or two
Andrew Stephen disentangles the Enron scandal and introduces us to another venture with links not just to top politicians, but also to the Bin Laden family
The storming of the accountants
It began as a small revolt at the Sorbonne in Paris, but may yet develop into a worldwide movement against the tyranny of numbers. David Boyle reports
Admit it: they are better than us
Insulting the French is a habit that dates back to George III. Stop it now, demands Jonathan Fenby
The future has been cancelled
Experts said we would surf the net on TVs and watch films on mobiles. But we still prefer the cinema
From the bottom of my heart . . .
Brenda Maddox on the hardest part of writing a book: who should be thanked and how?
The boredom and the anger
Some want to smash everything, others gnaw through their own flesh but, at this young offenders' institution, a shiny new workshop gives hope. Johann Hari reports
No excuses, we should all serve
If we truly cherish juries, why do two-thirds of us get ourselves off jury service?
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Set thine house in order
Religion can survive if it embraces the true spirit of science
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Robin Cook
The Leader of the Commons reveals plans to curb the power of the party machines and give a new deal to MPs. Robin Cook interviewed
Arts & Culture
Shut your von trapp
For Julie Andrews, the hills are no longer alive with the sound of music. If she can't sing, argues Zoe Williams, she should get off the screen
Club for heroes
Music - William Cook on how the boys in skirts are back in town
Oedipus wrecks
Nouveau Roman - Gerry Feehily on the unlikely return to prominence of Robbe-Grillet
Film
Time, gentlemen, time
Film - Philip Kerr raises a toast to a superb adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker Prize-winning novel
Television
Devilish pursuits
Television - Andrew Billen is unsettled by sex, juju and exorcism in Tuscany
Books
Writer in a critical condition. Susan Sontag has a remarkable talent for infuriating every shade of opinion in the United States. Frances Spalding on the insights of a cultural priestess
Where the Stress Falls
Susan Sontag Jonathan Cape, 351pp, £17.99
ISBN 0224029134
Ghost soldiers
The Road to Verdun
Ian Ousby Jonathan Cape, 293pp, £17.99
ISBN 0224059904
Thug culture
Holler If You Hear Me: searching for Tupac Shakur
Michael Eric Dyson Plexus Publishing, 302pp, £12.99
ISBN 0859653226
Willing executioners
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 152pp, £9.99
ISBN 071399570X
Writing shop Italian
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo, translated by William Weaver Everyman's Library, 437pp, £12.99
ISBN 1857152492
The colonial other
The Tourist's Gaze: travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000
Edited by Glenn Hooper Cork University Press, 304pp, £17.95
ISBN 1859183239
In place of strife
The Chosen City
Nicholas Schoon Spon Press, 370pp, £18.99
ISBN 0415258022
Future Transport in Cities
Brian Richards Spon Press, 162pp, £24.99
Paperback reader
Demonology
Rick Moody Faber, 304pp, £7.99
ISBN 0571204589
