Literary Review

THE TALENTED MS HIGHSMITH

Jessica Mann on a life of crime Peter Stansky celebrates George Orwell Selina Hastings admires Rose Macaulay Nietzsche's Madness * Chopin's Funeral

Norman Stone on the Gulag Michael Prowse on Globalisation Nikolai Tolstoy uncovers the Degaev Affair Jonathan Mirsky captures the Fall of Hong Kong

Is this our Final Century? Should we just get Stoned?