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Books & arts The past as it wasn’t Klaus Neumann 15 April 2009 Lauded overseas, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a flawed account of an important part of modern German history, writes Klaus Neumann Books & arts In the belly of the beast Geoffrey Barker 6 April 2009 Australian soldier and anthropologist David Kilcullen (pictured), who helped design the Iraq surge, has now written a book about how western counter-terrorism must change… Books & arts Andrew Ford and The Unquiet Grave Gordon Kerry 2 April 2009 The sources of Andrew Ford’s compositions are as varied as his guests each Saturday on The Music Show, writes Gordon Kerry in this extract from his new book Books & arts Paradise lost Peter Browne 2 April 2009 What price utopia? Two new memoirs and a series of crime novels give some clues

Books & arts Bureaucracy’s bleeding northern heart Ian Anderson 20 January 2009 Ian Anderson reviews Tess Lea’s innovative Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts Books & arts The stuff that myths are made of Mark Bahnisch 14 January 2009 As a political tool the internet is neither “top down” nor “bottom up,” argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of The Myth of Digital Democracy Books & arts Pitching the American dream Ellie Rennie 13 January 2009 Ellie Rennie reviews the first season of Mad Men, where work really matters Books & arts Reading Agatha Christie Dennis Altman 5 January 2009 Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes Dennis Altman