Skip navigation
London Review of Books London Review Bookshop

Articles marked subscriber-only content are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here. Articles marked not in archive are not currently available in the LRB online archive.

Contents

Vol. 23 No. 23   ·   29 November 2001

Joining the Gang

Nicholas Penny defends Anthony Blunt

Letters

Colm Tóibín, Geoffrey O’Brien, Denis McQuail, Richard Taruskin, Mark Rose, Anura Fernando, Lesley Chamberlain, Paul Winstanley, Samuel Wong, Frank Dux, Julie Beddoes, Adam Elgar, Joseph Forte, Andrew Rawlinson, Bernard Wasserstein, Chris Miller, Charmian Cannon, Paul Denman, Bill Sanderson, Richard Davies, Anthony Rudolf

P.N. Furbank

  • Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall by Paul Bailey

Airy-Fairy

Conor Gearty: Blunkett’s Folly

  • Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W.B. Simpson

Bigness

Hal Foster on Rem Koolhaas

  • Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Rem Koolhaas et al
  • Great Leap Forward by Rem Koolhaas et al

Gillian Darley

  • In Ruins by Christopher Woodward

Robert Crawford

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: friendsreunited.com

Helen Vendler

Hugh Pennington on the history of anthrax

Miles Taylor

  • The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838-50 edited by Gregory Claeys

At the National Gallery

Peter Campbell on Pisanello

Robert Macfarlane

Catherine Merridale

  • Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-24 by Aleksandr Nikitenko, translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson

Christopher Tayler

  • Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah

Cristina Nehring

  • Blue Angel by Francine Prose

Kathleen Jamie: Whale Watching

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Teapot on brown

Featured articles

Joining the Gang
Nicholas Penny defends Anthony Blunt

Airy-Fairy
Conor Gearty: Blunkett’s Folly

Bigness
Hal Foster on Rem Koolhaas

At the National Gallery
Peter Campbell on Pisanello

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: friendsreunited.com