04 July 2005
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Cover story
Now is the time to act
G8 - Ministers want us to think the Africa battle is won, but it is just starting, and we must pile on the pressure
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Culture
Simply doing nothin'
Robert Mitchum once said he had two acting styles - with horse or without - and he would have been baffled by the honour of a retrospective of his films. And yet this great Hollywood star was a linchpin in the development of modern acting, argues Christopher Bray
Deadly dull
Postmodern art - The Whitechapel hoped its show of black art would seem relevant. Larry Herman found it as lifeless as an Egyptian mummy
Join the club
Music - How do you learn to love jazz? Geoffrey Coombe, a lifelong aficionado, has a few tips for the bemused
Theatre
Michael Portillo - Out in the open
Theatre - A little-performed Shakespeare play is a summer night's dream, writes Michael Portillo Cymbeline Open Air Theatre, London NW1
Film
Miranda Sawyer - Battle of the bands
Film - On-the-road hell with the monsters of rock. By Miranda Sawyer DiG! (15)
Television
Andrew Billen - Dirty weekend
Television - Africa may be saved, but Richard Curtis's blushes aren't, writes Andrew Billen The Girl in the Cafe (BBC1
Books
The day of reckoning. Channel 5 devotes much of its output to Hitler and even our possible future king has sported a swastika armband. Why are we so gripped by the Nazi era? Is it because we want more madness in our lives? By J G Ballard
A Woman in Berlin Anonymous Virago, 311pp, £16.99 ISBN 1844081117 Germany: Jekyll and Hyde Sebastian Haffner Libris, 210pp, £16.95
Rogues' gallery
Mug Shots Martin Rowson Politico's, 144pp, £25 ISBN 1842750658
The inseminators
The Genius Factory: unravelling the mysteries of the Nobel Prize sperm bank David Plotz Simon & Schuster, 262pp, £12.99 ISBN 0743275519
The great escape
Just As Well I'm Leaving: to the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen Michael Booth Jonathan Cape, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0224073869
Fiction - Fatal attraction
Sleep With Me Joanna Briscoe Bloomsbury, 306pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747579954
The book business
Nicholas Clee on the surprising profitability of the online retailer Amazon
