Issue 57
November 2000
Contents
Drugs for the world's poor
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The patents and priorities of the western drugs industry are stacked against the sick of the developing world. But philanthropy, the impact of Aids, and new faces in global institutions have reinvigorated the battle against poor people's diseases.
James Lovelock
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
What kind of man suggests the world is an organism—and wins scientific acceptance for his idea?
Amnesty in Africa
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
How does a prisoner-of-conscience turned president react to a telling off?
Art house lives
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
Art house films - wordy, sexy, foreign - are increasingly marginal to British cultural life.
My Germany
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
After a lifetime caught up in its disastrous history, I can finally begin to accept Germany
Faith in science
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The Darwin wars have been fought with too much fury. The dialogue between We need calm and care to negotiate the post-Darwinian landscape
Let them die
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The preservation of dying languages and cultures is pointless and reactionary. People want to join modernity
The global fix
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
It demands better governance from others, but the G7 needs to put its own house in order
Against London
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The "petrol events" were a revolt of the car-dependent provinces
The Holocaust industry
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The "Holocaust industry" is driven by American and Israeli interests. But, says Samuel Brittan, no one can fully explain why it took so long to emerge
Hysterical realism
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" is the latest in a new genre of over-heated realist novels. Are they just imitating Dickens without the emotional force?
Pop goes naive
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
After the scowling and strutting of Britpop the new thing in pop music is a bumbling, self-effacing naïvety. Whimsical, romantic lyrics are back too
On sleeping in the theatre
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
The seats are comfy, the theatre is warm, and you ate before the show
The right face
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
What is it about Herbert Leadbetter's face that a publisher wants to pay for?
These islands
20th November 2000 — Issue 57
I wrote a book about my father, and discovered too late that there is always more to know