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BRIEFING NOTES

48 What were the causes of 9/11?
PETER BERGEN

Five years on, there are many theories about the real causes of 9/11. Which ones are plausible but flawed, and which are credible?

arts&books
68 A masterful failure
ERIK TARLOFF

COLUMNS

John Updike has largely failed to convey the interior life of an ArabAmerican terrorist.

8 Common law
ALEX MCBRIDE

70 Accidental revolutionary
JONATHAN RÉE

Can I prove my client was framed?

17 Washington watch
TUMBLER

In his new biography of Thomas Paine, Christopher Hitchens’s discourse has grown gouty with age.

The meaning of Lieberman’s defeat.

30 Matters of taste
ALEX RENTON

COLUMNS

64 Widescreen
MARK COUSINS

Time to regulate the organic industry.

The real Sean Connery.

41 Inefficient markets
PHILIPPE LEGRAIN

72 Private view
BEN LEWIS

The Doha derailment.

I’m issuing a “realism” alert.

42 France profonde
TIM KING

PORTRAIT

54 Vasily Grossman
ROBERT CHANDLER

77 Musical notes
STEPHEN EVERSON

The fall of Libération.

46 Lab report
PHILIP BALL

How Britain exploits US weakness.

The late Russian writer’s epic novel Life and Fate—often compared with War and Peace—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But only now is interest taking off.

The Lucerne festival. WEB EXCLUSIVES Michael Horovitz on the John Betjeman anniversary Ehsan Masood, Tahir Abbas and others on the terror plot.
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52 Brussels diary
MANNEKEN PIS

David Miliband’s sex appeal.

FICTION

60 The dog 80 Notes from underground
DAN KUPER VASILY GROSSMAN

Mind your language.

Born into the life of a stray, Pestrushka finds herself being trained for spaceflight.

FORTHCOMING Jeremy Isaacs on Channel 4

REGULARS

4 Letters 6 News & Curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 11 Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 73 Classifieds 78 The generalist DIDYMUS 79 The list

REVIEWS

66 History and human nature
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY

Niall Ferguson’s “punk Gibbon” account of the horrors of the 20th century is gripping—until his foray into evolutionary psychology.

Siôn Simon, Peter Wilby, David Willetts and others look back on Blairism
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