22 July 2002
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Cover story
The Best of Young British
From the stage to the boardroom, from Millbank to feminism, the NS celebrates the nation's most promising young (under 35) achievers
Features
Gone, and (almost) completely forgotten
Best of young British -They were big when they were young - breaking records, producing hits. Where are they now? Anushka Asthana and Michael Reiss report
The writing's on the wall
Best of young British - In 1993, Granta magazine published a list of Best Young Novelists. Philip Kerr, who was one, remembers the jealousy, bitching and backbiting that followed its appearance
Noises off
Best of young British - Peregrine Worsthorne argues that the power of youth has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished; but suspects that the worst excesses are got up by the media
The sweet voice of reason
Joe Klein's mission is to kick sense into Europe. By Scott Lucas and Barbara Sussex
A subaltern or a general?
European leaders are as uneasy as their citizens about their role vis-a-vis the US. Soon, they must make a choice - and their decision will change the world for ever
Essay
NS Essay - When the forests go, shall we be alone?
Some scientists think that, as it destroys other species, humanity will leave the age of mammals for the era of solitude. But John Gray expects something far worse
Interview
The NS Interview - Alan Milburn
The Health Secretary is determined to press on with easing central control over the NHS. But is the Chancellor onside? Alan Milburn interviewed
Regulars
Darcus Howe finds fault with the BBC
The BBC gets it wrong on the Caribbean and undermines its reputation
Mark Thomas fails to envy America
Britain's anti-Americanism is blamed on jealousy. This must mean we want the highest obesity rate in the world and a leader who can't string two sentences together
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Living la vida loca
Spain has always signified release, irresponsibility and sensuality to the composers of northern Europe. Peter Conrad succumbs to Spanish fever
A material world
Art - Ned Denny on how clothes can reveal a painting's hidden mysteries
Not enough brass
Music - Sholto Byrnes on why British jazz shouldn't blow its own trumpet
Film
Secrets of the cloth
Film - Philip Kerr on a powerful expose of the most culpable silence in history
Television
Love the music, laugh at the plot
Television - Andrew Billen on whether Wagner's anti-Semitism is too absurd to matter
Books
"I shall tear him to shreds". The historian Richard Evans has finally found a publisher for his book about David Irving. But is he the heroic figure some have claimed? D D Guttenplan on a legal farrago
Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, history and the David Irving trial Richard J Evans Verso, 326pp, £14 ISBN 1859844170
You've nothing to fear but fear itself
Reckoning with Risk: learning to live with uncertainty Gerd Gigerenzer Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 310pp, £14.99 ISBN 0713995122
The first cause
Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies Icon Books, 231pp, £7.99 ISBN 184046383X
The autumn of the patriarch. Siddhartha Deb reads a book of poetic meditations from the war-whooping leader of India
Twenty-one Poems Atal Behari Vajpayee Translated by Pavan K Verma Viking (Penguin India), 67pp ISBN 0670049174
Novel of the week
After the Man Before Alan Mahar Methuen, 246pp, £12.99 ISBN 0413771466
Puppy love
Twelve Nick McDonell Atlantic Books, 244pp, £9.99 ISBN 1843540711
An elusive suicide
Mark Gertler Sarah MacDougall John Murray, 398pp, £25 ISBN 0719557992
Wartime lies
The Secret History of PWE: the Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945 David Garnett Little, Brown, 528pp, £25 ISBN 1903608082
