20 June 2005
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Cover story
Latin America rises up
While Bush pursues his global mission, big changes are happening in his own backyard. A region Washington is used to bullying has started to rebel - and it has found a new friend
Features
Boom and bust
'Magical realism has now generally been replaced by a streetwise literature that reflects the fact that most Latin Americans no longer live in a sleepy, rural world, but in overcrowded cities'
A view that is no longer private property
The Black Mountain looms over Belfast, but until this month the city's people were banned from enjoying it. Beatrix Campbell recounts a tale of liberation
Goodbye to all that
What will Israel leave behind as it quits the Gaza Strip? Anton La Guardia on the demolition dilemma
Essay
NS Essay - 'We have a softened Thatcherism in public life, combined with a pretence that 1980s values have been overthrown. It's having it both ways. It's living in sin'
No one could deny that the Conservatives lost the culture war - just look at the hatred our novelists heap upon their ruthless, privatising Tory villains, even after all these years. And yet nobody is asking to have the pre-Thatcher world back
Regulars
The Politics Column
Politics - Richard Reeves tells the time unaided
The arrival of more management consultants at Downing Street bodes ill. Rather than injecting real business experience into government, Blair is recruiting in his own image
Mark Thomas looks closely at his wristband
US foreign aid programmes give more back to the giver than to the needy and help ailing armies shoot more Palestinians. Is this a cause worth wearing a wristband for?
Darcus Howe detects something in the water
How can you explain the bully-boy politics of Trinidad? Something in the water?
Competition
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Culture
A Premier League player
George Stubbs has long been recognised for his peerless portraits of animals. But, argues Paul Bonaventura, he is one of the world's greatest artists, by any measure
The business of Bill
Theatre history - Who was Shakespeare? And why does it matter? William Leahy on the latest Bard identity saga
Theatre
Julian Clary - Less is more
Theatre - Dancers bare of chest and tight of trouser are intense to watch, writes Julian Clary Naked Sadler's Wells, London EC1
Film
Mark Kermode - Animal magic
Film - Black study of a comic-book hero, and a shagging dog story. By Mark Kermode Batman Begins (12A) Undertow (15) Bombon El Perro (15)
Television
Andrew Billen - Spot the difference
Television - The US David Brent is not enough of a loser, writes Andrew Billen The Office: an American workplace (BBC3)
Books
The popular touch. Is it possible to distinguish "high" culture from "low" culture? Is one better than the other? Terry Eagleton on a generous polemic that fails to hit all its targets
What Good Are the Arts? John Carey Faber & Faber, 304pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571226027
Hungry for love
Fat Girl Judith Moore Profile, 196pp, £12.99 ISBN 1861979800
Power structures
The Edifice Complex: how the rich and powerful shape the world Deyan Sudjic Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 352pp, £25 ISBN 0713997621
Black and white
The Record Men: Chess Records and the birth of rock and roll Rich Cohen Profile, 220pp, £11.99 ISBN 1861977662
War artists
Bacon and Sutherland Martin Hammer Yale University Press, 272pp, £25 ISBN 030010796X
The inner life
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Umberto Eco Secker & Warburg, 464pp, £17.99 ISBN 0436205637
Fiction - On the shore
The Sea John Banville Picador, 264pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330483285
The book business
Nicholas Clee on why book blogs tell readers what they most want to know
