CONTENTS OF PRINT ISSUE - JULY-AUGUST 2002
COMMENT
4 Morag Fraser Prospects
5 Andrew Hamilton One step forward, another step back
SNAPSHOT
6 Soccer, condign caricatures, Vatican II step, gongs and a joke.
LETTERS
10 Neville Hicks, Warren Featherstone
THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC
11 Peter Browne Country matters
12 Edmund Campion In memoriam
13 Sybil Nolan Mixed marriage
15 Barry York Hons and rebels
16 Michael McGirr Writers' meet
17 Geoffrey MilneDramatic moves
18 Moira Rayner Media blanks
COLUMNS
7 Capital Letter
Jack Waterford Coming to light
8 Summa Theologiae
Andrew Hamilton and Ray Cassin
A dialogue
13 Archimedes
Tim Thwaites Gould's gold
33 By the Way
Brian Matthews Refining Rebecca
54 Watching Brief
Juliette Hughes Monsters are us
FEATURES
20 What's right for Europe?
From Madrid, Anthony Ham reports on the shifting political landscape.
23 Sights set on peace
Can Sri Lanka finally negotiate its way out of civil war? Jon Greenaway
reports from the troubled island.
32 Global rules
Peter Davis shoots a mini-essay in Mexico.
34 Swerving to happiness
Peter Steele analyses the language of love in the poetry of Peter
Porter.
COVER STORY
28 The man who reads the signs
Artist George Gittoes' take on war is a challenge both to complacency
and to cynicism, as Michele M. Gierck discovered when she interviewed
the man whose work blurs the distinction between art and life.
BOOKS
42 The short list
Reviews of The Clash of Fundamentalisms; Lighting the Way: Reconciliation
Stories; Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky and
Journey to the Inner Mountain: In the Desert with St Antony.
43 The man who knew too much
Brett Evans reviews Don Watson's recollections of his time as speech-writer
to Paul Keating.
45 Capital chaps
Brian Toohey reviews Rich Kids, Paul Barry's account of
the One.Tel fiasco.
46 Graceful possibilities
Peter C. Gaughwin reviews George Vaillant's Ageing Well.
50 States of equilibrium
Philip Harvey looks at the poetry of Geoff Page and James Charlton.
POETRY
48 & 51 Alex Skovron The Man and the Map, Heaven Refuses
FLASH IN THE PAN
52 Reviews of the films Last Orders; Italian for Beginners;
Spider-Man; I Am Sam; The Hard Word and The
Devil's Backbone.
SPECIFIC LEVITY
55 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword
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