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Issue: July/August 2011

German Hysteria
‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’
Mara Delius

East End Extremism
‘When a journalist who runs an investigative website dedicated to the Islamisation of Tower Hamlets attempted to interview Anjem Choudary, he was told, “Rot in hell or embrace Islam”’
Michael Burleigh

Cannes Do Better
‘The writer’s place in a movie is somewhere between the second assistant cameraman and the catering staff’
Lionel Shriver

Arab Spring Sprung?
‘The Arab Spring may turn out to be a big disappointment for the promoters of democracy and their Western supporters’
Emanuele Ottolenghi

Iliad!
From a fragment of an ancient manuscript recently discovered in the ruins of Los Angeles. Edited by Clive James
Clive James

The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
Eric Ormsby

A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
Piers Paul Read

Ode to Joyce
Book review of James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
Tibor Fischer

Where the End of History Began
Noel Malcolm

Star-crossed Purposes
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Nichi Hodgson

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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