Portrait

56Albert Ellis The foul-mouthed father of cognitive therapy, Albert Ellis, is a modern Diogenes. JULES EVANS

Columns

10Letter from Berlin Hey, I found a trampoline! JULIAN GOUGH

20Washington watch Will Bloomberg run? TUMBLER

26Matters of taste Foods for all seasons. ALEX RENTON

43Rivers of Babylon Are the Sunnis finally accepting the inevitable? NIBRAS KAZIMI

48Inefficient markets Exporting our higher education. MICHAEL PREST

54These islands Cardiffs I have known. JOHN WILLIAMS

59Brussels diary Sarkozy outflanks Brown. MANNEKEN PIS

80Confessions Why I took 100 paracetamol. CAR HILLS

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60 Extra geography We were fourteen. We decided to fall in love with the next person we saw. ROSE TREMAIN

Reviews

64 Champion of the arts John Tusa reveals how he transformed the ailing Barbican into one of the world’s best centres for high culture.

STEPHEN EVERSON

66 A dictatorship of idiots? Critics of websites such as Wikipedia claim they are eroding expertise. But would anyone really want to put the clock back? JAMES CRABTREE

67 Motorcycle diaries The neglected war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has killed 4m people, tells us more about Africa’s problems than do Darfur or Rwanda.

ALAN PHILPS

68 Chile’s poet-revolutionary Since his death in 2003, Chilean novelist Roberto Bolañño has undergone a process of sanctification. PHILIP OLTERMANN

69 Life in Extremistan Unforeseen events like 9/11 may be on the rise. Is it possible to improve our predictions, or should we simply accept what we don’t know? TOM NUTTALL

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62Widescreen What road movies tell us. MARK COUSINS

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ZOE HELLER & ROY PORTER on Prozac and the chemistry of happiness MAGNUS LINKLATER on the decline in Britain’s mental health services

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GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT looks back on 1997: the year of the New Labour landslide and the death of Diana

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