School for mums. Page 42

SHORT STORY 46 NOT CRICKET Patrick McGrath

A perfect day for cricket—until Cleave the vampire arrived.

PORTRAIT 52 MARTIN AMIS JASON COWLEY The bad boy of literary London is disappointed he is not Joyce; but how good is he?

SPECIAL REPORT 58 BUYING A BETTER CLIMATE MICHAEL GRUBB on the most daring initiative yet to tackle global warming.

BRIEFING 62 THE YEAR 2000 BOMB: IS IT HYPE? ROBERT FENNER on the race to sort out the millennium computer bug.

The new frontier. Page 34

REVIEWS 65 YELLOW PERIL REPAINTED JONATHAN SPENCE Is the danger from China real, or is it mere bluster?

68 ETZIONI AND HIS CRITICS MELANIE PHILLIPS The guru of communitarianism is actually a liberal.

A deadly game. Page 46

70 GREENS GET REAL HUGH RAVEN Environmentalists still have a job.

72 EXPLAINING MEMORY WARS DANIEL BRITTEN Recovered memory, Satanic abuse and Freudian theory.

74 THE UNRECONSTRUCTED YVETTE COOPER Old hat answers to unemployment.

75 NOT COMPLETELY FRANK NICOLAS WALTER Anne Frank deserves better.

76 WORST OF BOTH WORLDS MARTIN KETTLE Who should pay for opera houses?

DIGEST 82 Paul Krugman on the muddle in France; the right to choose castration,

REGULARS 4/78-9 LETTERS Replies to William Rubinstein.

5 CURIOSITIES 6 MODERN MANNERS JEREMY CLARKE Accidental deaths.

40 THE BUSINESS JOHN PLENDER on Howard’s End.

45 LETTER FROM PARIS ANNE-ELISABETH MOUTET A new recruit for lagauche caviar. 51 THE PRISONER PETER WAYNE comes down to earth.

57 THE LIST Prospect’s guide to lectures.

77 CHOICES Prospect’s pick of the arts.

80 STRICTLY PERSONAL FREDERIC RAPHAEL visits the holy land.

81 THE LAB GEOFF WATTS The logic of sadness.

86 CROSSWORD BY DIDYMUS

87 BRUSSELS DIARY MANNEKEN PIS The enlargement carve-up.

88 PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS LINDSAY WATERS Disenchanted American Europhile.

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