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Contents

Vol. 24 No. 7   ·   4 April 2002

Terry Castle: Disquiet on the Western Front

Letters

Sheila Stern, Ron Haggart, Pat Harvey, Robert FitzGerald, David Rose, Steve Baiocchi, Bernard Murchland, Andrew Coulson, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Graham Kemp, Stephen Burt

Linda Nochlin on Louise Bourgeois

  • Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Spider’: The Architecture of Art-Writing by Mieke Bal

Charles Nicholl looks for the Mona Lisa

  • Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting by Donald Sassoon

Quentin Skinner: Living in Servitude

Cads

R.W. Johnson on Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico.

  • Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico

When Capitalism Calls

Andy Beckett: The Protest Ethic by John Lloyd

  • The Protest Ethic: How the Anti-Globalisation Movement Challenges Social Democracy by John Lloyd

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: military intelligence

Roy Porter on Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie.

  • Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie

Lorna Scott Fox on Mike Davies

  • Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City by Mike Davis

Jamie McKendrick

David Craig: The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

Rose George: Eddie Stobart

  • The Eddie Stobart Story by Hunter Davies

Peter Wollen: John Berger

  • The Selected Essays of John Berger edited by Geoff Dyer

Jessica Olin: The Bystander’s Scrapbook by Joseph Torra

  • The Bystander's Scrapbook by Joseph Torra

Robert Macfarlane: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

  • The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

Laura Quinney: James Merrill

  • Collected Poems by James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser

Richard Davenport-Hines: Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis

  • Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis

At the Barbican

Peter Campbell on Martin Parr

  • Martin Parr by Val Williams

Anatol Lieven

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Cushions

Featured articles

When Capitalism Calls
Andy Beckett: The Protest Ethic by John Lloyd

Cads
R.W. Johnson on Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico.

At the Barbican
Peter Campbell on Martin Parr

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: military intelligence