28 May 2007
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Cover story
Gaza: The jailed state
The world cannot afford to stand by while the Israeli army and Palestinian militias fight their unwinnable and bloody war.
Features
Brown's new world order
The Inside Track with Jonathan Freedland plus Kevin Maguire, Martin Bright, Peter Wilby plus Tara Hamilton-Miller
Children of the dust
As the Israeli army attempts to imprison an entire nation, it is the youngest who suffer most. Half of all Palestinians killed in the past six years are children
Time Out with Nick Cohen: Barbara Stocking
In what circumstances would Oxfam's head choose to speak plainly, even if telling the truth endangered famine relief? Photographs by Nick Dawe
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Labour seeks candid politics as Cameron copies Blair's mistakes
Are there any original minds out there struggling to show themselves, but fearful of the consequences?
Commons Confidential
Druggie Dave's a hit with the men with the handcuffs
Kevin Maguire's round-up of events in and around the Westminster village
Are our lives safe in their hands?
The UK government is as obsessed as the Stasi with charting our lives but the edge over the DDR - computers
No 3979 Disorderly conduct
Set by Gavin Ross You were asked for the symptoms and causes of post-dramatic stress disorder
Culture
Keep on moving
Hailed as the best album of the 20th century, Bob Marley's Exodus is 30 years old next month. Vivien Goldman recalls the sessions that produced a modern classic
Heavenly bodies
Sue Hubbard admires Antony Gormley's ambition, but is curiously unmoved by his new show
Theatre
In pursuit of the American dream
Moody tale of black lives in Depression-era Chicago tries to tell too big a story Big White Fog Almeida Theatre, London N1
Film
Dead in the water
A sterile adaptation of Raymond Carver is outdone by a gay high-school drama
Jindabyne (15)
dir: Ray Lawrence
Wild Tigers I Have Known (18)
dir: Cam Archer
Television
Meet the millionaire tramps
Watching the rich play homeless for the cameras is a depressing spectacle Filthy Rich and Homeless BBC3 Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain BBC2
Album Reviews
Drama without sentimentality
Brahms Piano Quintet and String Quartets The Emerson String Quartet/Leon Fleisher Deutsche Grammophon
Books
Major innings
For our last Tory prime minister, cricket enshrined the values of a nation, writes Mike Atherton. Now he celebrates the game in a scholarly, elegant history
Afghan secrets
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury, 389pp, £16.99
ISBN 0747582793
The Kabul Beauty School: the art of friendship and freedom
Deborah Rodriguez
Hodder & Stoughton, 288pp, £12.99
ISBN 0340935235
Substance, not style
Sir Robert Peel: a biography
Douglas Hurd
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 416pp, £25
ISBN 0297848445
Wide open spaces
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Byambasuren Davaa and Lisa Reisch
Virago, 160pp, £9.99
ISBN 1844083047
Forty years on
Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
Hutchinson, 352pp, £17.99
ISBN 0091794501
Dos and don'ts
Send: the how, why, when and when not of e-mail David Shipley and Will Schwalbe Canongate, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 1841959944
All together now
Karaoke: the global phenomenon
Zhou Xun and Francesca Tarocco
Reaktion, 208 pp, £14.95
ISBN 1861893000
