Articles marked 
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.
Contents
Vol. 25 No. 23 · 4 December 2003
Richard Wollheim on a dance at Belsen
Justin Horton, Rev. Perry Butler, Yitzhak Laor, Bill Templer, James Wood, Gary Indiana, Thomas Smith, Peter Connolly, Sophia Kingshill, Zachary Leader, Tony Simpson, Ella Westland, Tom Lewis, Lars Falk, Jud Heywood
Bruce Cumings: Korean War Games
John Sutherland on Conrad’s letters
- The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Vol. VI 1917-19 edited by Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
Seamus Perry on Romanticism
- Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory by Paul Hamilton
Theo Tait: ‘Going Postal’
Hal Foster: from the ‘society of spectacle’ to the ‘society of extras’
- Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud, translated by Matthew Copeland
- Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud, translated by Jeanine Herman
- Interviews: Volume I by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Thomas Jones on silly mistakes and blood for Bush
Andrew Berry on Galton
- A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics by Nicholas Wright Gillham
Peter Campbell: Eric Ravilious
Matthew Reynolds reads Ungaretti
- Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Andrew Frisardi
Patrice Higonnet on Moulin, the French martyr
- Jean Moulin: Le politique, le rebelle, le résistant by Jean-Pierre Azéma
E.S. Turner on wartime spivs and dodgers
- An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War by Donald Thomas
Ronald Stevens: Fleet Street magnates
- Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Tony Wood: Betraying the People’s Will in Tsarist Russia
- The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia by Richard Pipes
Thomas Laqueur: memories in German
Contributors
Andrew Berry teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Bruce Cumings teaches in the history department at the University of Chicago, and is the author of North Korea: Another Country.
Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Patrice Higonnet’s Paris, Capital of the World is published by Harvard.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Bernard O’Donoghue teaches medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford. His latest book of poems is Outliving.
Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His selection from Coleridge’s notebooks came out in paperback from Oxford in 2003, and his study of Tennyson appeared in 2004.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
Ronald Stevens was an industrial correspondent on the Daily Telegraph in the 1960s and, until 2002, managing editor of the British Journalism Review.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Richard Wollheim, who died on 4 November 2003, was Grote Professor in the University of London, before moving to the States, where he taught at Columbia and at Berkeley. His last book was On the Emotions (1999).
Tony Wood is the deputy editor of New Left Review and the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
