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Decline and fall?
With the peaceful end of the Cold War, the United Nations seemed poised to preside over a new and stable world order. Then came the Balkans, Rwanda... Can the UN ever recover?
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I married a Maori
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
Christina Thompson
Bloomsbury, 288pp, £14.99
Quietly devastating
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bloomsbury, 352pp, £14.99
Speed dating
It occurred to me my personal equivalent of speed dating is, in fact, the hotel fire scare. In many ways a group of strangers in damp car park at 3am is an ideal way to meet new chums
Calls of the wild
Many of our old wildernesses are dying - like the Arctic - but many, and different, others - on Liverpool's fringes, in the South Bronx - are also being created. The writers in the new Granta report back from the new front lines between nature and civilisation
Sovereignty in the dock
A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein
John Laughland
Peter Lang, 315pp, £12.99
Books and bookmen
Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life
Jeremy Lewis
HarperPress, 330pp, £20
Still turning world
The Long-Player Goodbye
Travis Elborough
Sceptre, 480pp, £14.99
Old Rare New: the Independent Record Shop
Emma Pettit
Black Dog Publishing, 144pp, £19.95
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One tragedy of many
My Grandmother: a Memoir
Fethiye Çetin, translated and introduced by Maureen Freely
Verso, 144pp, £12.99
Rugby, 5 Apartheid, 0
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation
John Carlin
Atlantic Books, 288pp, £18.99
India/China reality check
Smoke and Mirrors: an Experience of China
Pallavi Aiyar
HarperCollins India, 288pp, £15.99
