Volume 121 Issue 1 January/February 2006
Features
- Going nowhere: Laurie Taylor interviews John Gray
- Progress is an illusion and liberal humanists are adolescent romantics. John Gray tells Laurie Taylor why he believes we're all deluded
- Gaza Taliban?
- On the eve of the Palestinian elections, Aya Yasmina May traces the unlikely rise of Hamas
- Stitch Up!
- Home-making is enjoying a comeback. Eliane Glaser detects a sinister plot among the cookers, the breeders and the knitters
- Mussolini with knickers
- Whats so funny about all those Twankeys and Trots strutting onto centre stage up and down the country? Sally Feldman defrocks the pantomime dame
- Uncommon decency
- We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty
- Faith, hope and charity
- Should we worry where the money goes? Jessica Williams offers a guide to giving
- Identity crisis
- Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Culture
- East of Eden
- Jonathan Ree reviews Fallen by David Maine
- Occidental tourist
- Stephen Howe is baffled by the same old story
- No short cuts
- Andrew Tudor struggles to pin down the enigma of Robert Altman
- French Farce
- Hip hop didnt spark the riots, says Caspar Melville; it merely predicted them
- French impressions
- Ken Worpole on the genius of Joseph Roth
- Mr Gray's Elegy
- The playwright and diarist Simon Gray died on August 6, 2008. In this review for 2006 Brenda Maddox reviews the second volume of Gray's 'Smoking Diaries', 'The Year of The Jouncer'
- Sons of Ulster
- Newton Emerson on a new history of Ulster
- Hare brained
- Nina Power reviews Zeno's Tortoise
Columns
- Sssshhhhh...
- Stuart Sim needs some quiet time
- Love thine enemy
- Rather than bicker with believers, we should join forces with them, says Bernard Crick
- Last words
- Lifelong humanist Lionel Elvin died in 2005. This is his final testament
- Mystic Manhattan
- Solana Larsen catches up with a past life in New York