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MARCH 2011 £3.50

CROUCHING DRAGON, HIDDEN TROUBLE

Frank Dikötter questions our Fear of China

Michael Burleigh on Osama bin Laden Oleg Gordievsky on a Cold War Spy Swap

Elaine Showalter on a Fruitless Utopia

Amanda Foreman on ‘Capability’ Brown

Simon Singh on a Maths Prodigy John Gray on Artists’ Manifestos

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Bryan Appleyard: Why Cities are Greener

Jonathan Keates: The Birth of Italy

Michelangelo’s Letters ★ Forster’s Journals ★ Woolf ’s Essays ★ Sitwell’s Salon