20 November 2006
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Cover story
Missing presumed tortured
More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?
Features
Runners and riders in the real battle ahead
The Democrats are preparing to flex their muscles in Congress against George Bush. But both parties are already focusing on the next presidency. Our US editor, Andrew Stephen, points to the candidates
Divided in peace
Northern Ireland is on the verge of a historic power-sharing deal. But any pact between hardline republicans and unionists will formalise ethnic cleansing.
Time Out with Nick Cohen: Ted Honderich
For Ted Honderich, if you don't give money to Oxfam or the Red Cross, you are killing Africans as surely as if you had deliberately stopped a food convoy reaching a refugee camp
Why aren't women at the top yet?
After years of progress, the promotion of women to top jobs is slowing down. Why? Dr Lynda Gratton tells Sarah Sands that the time is ripe for someone to light "a fire under business"
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Labour's lurch to the lynch and the challenge for progressives
This week's New Statesman leader examines New Labour's approach to tackling the terror threat.
The Politics Column
Smoking guns in Iraq
Tony Blair gives evidence to a US inquiry into the Iraq situation, but refuses one at home.
Second hand words No 3955
Set by John O'Byrne We asked you to detail the quarrels/makings-up of famous people using literary quotations
Culture
City of illusions
Since Roman times, map-makers have tried to impose order on the chaotic streets of London. Some have been broken by the task
Topsy-turvy world
Gilbert and Sullivan blew a raspberry at Victorian society's prized institutions
Cultural explosion
Why go to the theatre during a nuclear crisis? Mark Brown found out at a South Korean festival
Theatre
It's not all Greek
A mash-up of styles and the removal of Apollo makes for an unsatisfying tragedy Orestes Tricycle Theatre, London NW6
Film
Lean, mean and cold as ice
Laughs are scarce, but the new James Bond is true to the spirit of the books Casino Royale (12A) dir: Martin Campbell
Television
Lest we forget, here's another reminder
We're happy to remember past wars without addressing the one we're in Kipling: a remembrance tale BBC1
Books
Double dealing
Conrad and Lady Black: dancing on the edge Tom Bower HarperPress, 436pp, £20 ISBN 0007232349 Ambitious, brainy and rich, Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel were society's darlings - before greed and selfishness shamed them.
Publishing house
142 Strand: a radical address in Victorian London Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus, 386pp, £20 ISBN 070117370X
Home sweet home
The Taste of Britain Laura Mason and Catherine Brown HarperPress, 495pp, £25 ISBN 0007241321
In Arabian nights
Sexuality in the Arab World Edited by Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon Saqi Books, 312pp, £35 ISBN 086356948X
Gardeners' world
Strange Blooms: the curious lives and adventures of the John Tradescants
Jennifer Potter
Atlantic Books, 464pp, £19.99
ISBN 1843543346
Sentimental journeys
Previous Convictions: assignments from here and there A A Gill Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297851624
Voyage of discovery
A Sea Change Michael Arditti Maia Press, 304pp, £8.99 ISBN 1904559212
Lingering farewell
The Lay of the Land Richard Ford Bloomsbury, 496pp, £17.99 ISBN 0747581886
What if? Or, if only . . .
President Gore and Other Things That Never Happened Edited by Duncan Brack Politico's, 384pp, £14.99 ISBN 1842751727
Promised land?
It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street Emma Williams Bloomsbury, 464pp, £14.99 ISBN 0747583714
Not a state of happiness
Nirvana: the true story Everett True Omnibus, 500pp, £19.95 ISBN 1844496406
Second-rate ranting
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? Volume Two Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur Little, Brown, 307pp, £10.99 ISBN 0316029963
Observations
A poor way of banking
Observations on Farepak scandal which has left 150,000 families facing a miserable Christmas
We should be watching
New Statesman political editor Martin Bright highlights violence that has claimed dozens of lives in the run-up to elections in Bangladesh.
