18 February 2002
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Cover story
Why Tracey Emin isn't smiling
Peter Watson reveals that, weary of pickled sheep and unmade beds, art world insiders are plotting to end bad aesthetic times and change the Turner Prize
Features
At the weekend, Islam gets angry
Burhan Wazir reports on the Muslim Saturday morning schools, and finds a more divisive culture than any likely to prevail in a state-sponsored faith school
Genocide by sloth
Peter Mandelson, visiting Durban, finds Nelson Mandela moving into the front line of "the real war" against Aids, despite his successor's reluctance to act
An old continent, tired and impotent
European politicians might as well save their breath: the US isn't listening to their views on the war. They must settle for another role, argues John Lloyd
Nightmare at Camp Bondsteel
Djakova, Kosovo, 14 December. US helicopters appear in the sky; troops raid the school; aid workers are seized. Mark Almond reveals an episode of terror
Coming next: the monsoon divorce
In India, even today, 90 per cent of marriages are arranged. But after all the lavish ceremonies, how many actually survive? S Gauthamreports
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Why this scene is unnatural
Colin Tudge dissects the case for hunting and finds it based on arguments that are flawed and outdated, intellectually as well as ethically
Culture
A room of their own
Does Posh Spice deserve a place in an archive of female suffrage alongside Mary Wollstonecraft? Richard Coles visits the new Women's Library
Thinking of England
Photography - Julian Stallabrass on a vulgar life of greasy breakfasts and fox-hunting
Labour of love
Sonnets - Lisa Jardine gets in the mood for Valentine's Day with the Bard
Theatre
Bah Homburg
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on an overly poetic parody of the Romantic poet
Television
Guilty as charged
Television - Andrew Billen on a pretentious adaptation of Crime and Punishment
Books
Old Rhodies never die. The whites are in final retreat in Southern Africa. Once again the mysterious continent has swallowed up all those who seek to change it. By Richard Dowden
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood Alexandra Fuller Picador, 310pp, £15.99 ISBN 0330490230
Games without frontiers
The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War Mark Huband Westview Press, 408pp, £21.99 ISBN 0813335981
The world in union
The Scottish Enlightenment Arthur Herman Fourth Estate, 392pp, £20 ISBN 1841152757
Come quick
Love letters: an anthology Antonia Fraser Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 247pp, £9.99 ISBN 0297829068
Till death us do part
Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus, 548pp, £25 ISBN 0701167092
The day of the hunt
Embers Sandor Marai Viking, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670910996
Waiting to be called
The Courage Consort Michel Faber Canongate Books, 121pp, £6.99 ISBN 1841952265
Jungle book
Savage Girls and Wild Boys Michael Newton Faber and Faber, 299pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571201393
Paperback reader
Mary George of Allnorthover Lavinia Greenlaw Flamingo, 320pp, £6.99 ISBN 0007105959
