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Issue: September 2009

Marianne Fox Ockinga
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Berlin: Empty Elections
‘This reunification generation of Germans is sick of coalition government but equally dissatisfied with the alternatives on offer’
Mara Delius

Korchnoi: the Veterans’ Veteran

It is Korchnoi's fighting spirit that has enabled him to achieve victory, aged 78, in a young man's game

Dominic Lawson

Thomas Sowell
The American economist, whose broad learning and philosopher's eye bring a sharp clarity to the science, is applauded
Roger Kimball

Henry Louis Gates
The achievements of an academic in the eye of a very public storm are questionable
Robert Messenger

Oranges and Angel
A short story
Ingo Schulze

Upwardly Immobile
The best way to give working-class children a better chance in life is to offer education vouchers
John Stein

Swine Flu
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Daisy Waugh

Mock the Nation
Is the BBC trying to appeal to the same audience that watches internet porn?
Nick Cohen

Playing It Straight
Dorian Gray may be easy on the eye but it fails to create a frisson
Peter Whittle

An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar

An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
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