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September 2004 issue of Prospect Magazine (#102)

Features

The biographer's tale
Andrew Adonis / September 26, 2004
In 1994 I asked Roy Jenkins if I could write his biography. By the time he finally...
Questions of authority
Matt Cavanagh / September 26, 2004
Paul Seabright has written a stimulating book about the origins of liberalism. But it...
Liberal dramatics
Michael Coveney / September 26, 2004
The arrival at the National Theatre of David Hare's new play about Iraq appears to seal...
Choosing Europe
Charles Grant / September 26, 2004
Timothy Garton Ash has written an ambitious book about the future of the west. But he is...
Among the Democrats
Erik Tarloff / September 26, 2004
Reluctantly at first, the Democrats swung behind Kerry, who is now running a bolder...
Graham Greene
Julian Evans / September 26, 2004
Considered vain, duplicitous and out of date, Greene fell from grace. Yet his worldliness...

Opinions

Loyal to a traitor
Geordie Williamson / September 26, 2004
The 1980s correspondence between old friends Graham Greene and Kim Philby will soon be...
No deal
prospect / September 26, 2004
A leading German foreign policy expert says the US should become postmodern
Tontines for today
Richard Barry / September 26, 2004
An old solution to a new problem
Peacock is back
Caroline Thomson / September 26, 2004
Broadcasting is as subject to market failure as anything else
Asset-spreading
Nick Pearce / September 26, 2004
Income inequality has declined but wealth inequality is roaring ahead
After the bomb
Alexander Casella / September 26, 2004
The UN's inquiry into the Baghdad bombing was a farce

Regulars

Foreword
David Goodhart / September 26, 2004
The new Iraq received a heart-warming welcome at the Olympic games opening ceremony. But...
Letters
prospect / September 26, 2004
Public intellectuals 1 30th July 2004 I was flattered to be included on your list of...
Numbers game
Harvey Cole / September 26, 2004
Pocket money Last month the Halifax summed up its survey of pocket money by saying: "a...
My top ten fears
Elena Lappin / September 26, 2004
Andrew Meldrum

Arts & Books

The curse of Henry James
Michiel Heyns / September 26, 2004
The spate of novels about Henry James seems odd even to Michiel Heyns, who wrote one of...
An expat's lament
Nicolas Rothwell / September 26, 2004
Germaine Greer has told white Australia to embrace its Aboriginal identity. But this book...
The axeman cometh
Jonathan Heawood / September 26, 2004
Dale Peck casts himself as the saviour of modern fiction, but his firecracker reviews end...
Architecture forecast
Deyan Sudjic / September 26, 2004
Venice has become the model for a new breed of show in which architecture steals the...
Private view
Sebastian Smee / September 26, 2004
Australian painters gradually made the continent look less like Europe, but in Aboriginal...
Smallscreen
David Herman / September 26, 2004
Match of the Day and Michael Parkinson's chat show have this in common: they were...
Widescreen
Mark Cousins / September 26, 2004
If you view film as a realistic medium, the escapism of Hollywood begins to look like a...

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