In this week's magazine Here comes the squeeze

• Observations

• Columns

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    Laurie Penny: our disgusting appetite for anorexia chic

    The press might not admit it but anorexia is in fashion.

    By Laurie Penny

• Features

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    The NS Interview: Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme

    “I had more power before but I’ve got more influence now”

    By Jon Bernstein
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    David Attenborough — not over, not out

    At 84, Britain’s favourite naturalist says that, with BBC2’s First Life, he has made his last major TV series. Yet he shows no sign of losing his love for fossils . . . and life.

    By Sophie Elmhirst

• Critics

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    Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope and the American Political Tradition

    By Marc Stears
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    Wittgenstein’s awkward nephew

    Thomas Bernhard was a great satirist, a lone voice of comic dissent as bourgeois Austria, the countr

    By Gabriel Josipovici

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