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30th March 2009
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Civilisation

Critique

Healey's Bully Pulpit is Worth Revisiting

CLIVE JAMES

The memoirs of one of our most able and most cultivated politicians provide a useful reminder of the virtues of ordinary politics

Art

In Search of Babylon

MICHAEL PRODGER

A British Museum exhibition will mix ancient artefacts with work inspired by the city of legend

Film

Complexities of Urban Terror

PETER WHITTLE

A new German movie strips away the myths surrounding the Baader-Meinhof gang

Music

Suffer the Children

IAN BOSTRIDGE

Young people can be inspirational in the audience, problematic on stage

Books

Gray's Elegy

JOHN O'SULLIVAN

Coda by Simon Gray

Crash Course

NOEL MALCOLM

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

Flying in the Face of Fashion

GEORGE WALDEN

Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

US and Them

CONRAD BLACK

The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy by Frank Prochaska

Where There's a Will

BLAIR WORDEN

Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate

There's no Going Back

DAVID SEXTON

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

Television

How to Make History Badly

NICK COHEN

Far from revealing what has gone wrong with American politics, Simon Schama's new series shows what has gone wrong with British television

Theatre

Right Welcome

MINETTE MARRIN

A brave new play deals with freedom of speech in complex and interesting ways

Most forwarded

  • Blood on the Streets
  • The Pope Versus the Vatican
  • On the 'Slumdog' Trail
  • To Hell with Niceness
  • A Tale of Sadness and Forgetting

Most commented

  • Denying Israel's Deniers
  • Net Losses in the Newsroom
  • Tariq Ali's Plan for Pakistan
  • In Bad Faith
  • A Pretence of Progress

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