05 August 2002
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Cover story
Tony and Gordon want you to be happy
We're richer than ever, we've just been on a giant spending spree, but we're still miserable. Can happiness economics help us?
Features
No longer just the bank
Europe may have been subsidising the Palestinian Authority, but it has played an insignificant role in the Middle East. Now that will change. By John Kampfner
Americans see us as subordinates
Anti-European feeling is running high in America - among the left as well as the right, as John Lloyd discovered at a dinner party in Washington
Finding the real Iraq
In the shadow of their Glorious Leader, Iraqis are struggling with malnutrition and illiteracy. But that's not what the authorities want you to see. Lindsey Hilsum reports
The bumbling, moustachioed terrorists
November 17 were part of Greek mythology: bold, daring and secretive, they eluded police for decades. Now, they are being unmasked as plump and banal, reports Helena Smith
The secret partition
A plan to split Saudi Arabia gives the Saudis the holy sites and us the oil, George Galloway tells Paul Moorcraft
Interview
NS Interview - Anne Owers
The chief inspector of prisons fears that squalid conditions and overcrowding breach the human rights of some inmates. Anne Owers interviewed
Regulars
Darcus Howe on killing that comes close to home
My son's stepfather was gunned down by an assassin. Now I worry that he will be next
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Land of plenty
Anything goes at American theatre festivals. This inclusive spirit encourages a creative diversity lacking in the English cultural diet, discovers Dominic Dromgoole
Shooting stars
Photography - Jillian Edelstein on the remarkable woman whose work falls between Marlene Dietrich's legs and sad potato pickers
A dirty business
Advertising - Ross Diamond is amused by a very English brand of tasteless irony
Theatre
Hostess from hell
Theatre - Amy Rosenthal finds that the legendary Seventies party has lost its sting
Film
Hitting the base notes
Film - Philip Kerr salutes two vulgar, offensive, puerile icons - Austin Powers and Mozart
Television
Definitely no class act
Television - Andrew Billen on a sitcom about a nouveau-riche clan with no redeeming qualities
Books
Killing the past. As guardians of a people's self-image, historians define the terrain on which wars of national identity are fought - and nowhere more so than in Palestine. By Stephen Howe
The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews Benny Morris IB Tauris, 297pp, £24.50 ISBN 1862075212 Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East Michael B Oren Oxford University Press, 464pp, £25 Being Israeli: the dynamics of multiple citizenship Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled Cambridge University Press, 409pp, £15.95 Strangers in the House: coming of age in occupied Palestine Raja Shehadeh Profile Books, 253pp, £9.99
The man who fell to earth
Michel Houellebecq is on the run - from his left-liberal critics in France, from Islamic activists and perhaps even from himself. He talks exclusively to Gerry Feehily about his new life in Ireland
Union blues
State of the Union: a century of American labor Nelson Lichtenstein Princeton University, 298pp, £19.95 ISBN 0691057680 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Granta Books, 240pp, £8.99
Dear diary
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank Carol Ann Lee Viking, 364pp, £17.99 ISBN 0670913316
Novel of the week
Wake Up Tim Pears Bloomsbury, 227pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747559570
