Vol. 25 No. 23 · 4 December 2003

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Vol. 25 No. 23 · 4 December 2003

Richard Wollheim

A Bed out of Leaves

Letters

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

Wrong Again

Anne Carson

Two Poems

John Sutherland

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. VI: 1917-19 edited by Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles. Cambridge, 570 pp., £80, December 2002, 0 521 56195 7

Seamus Perry

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory by Paul Hamilton. Chicago, 316 pp., £17.50, August 2003, 0 226 31480 4

Theo Tait

Mailman by J. Robert Lennon. Granta, 483 pp., £15.99, October 2003, 1 86207 625 1

Hal Foster

Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud, translated by Matthew Copeland. Les Presses du réel, 128 pp., €9, March 2002, 2 84066 060 1
Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud, translated by Jeanine Herman. Lukas and Sternberg, 88 pp., $19, October 2001, 0 9711193 0 9
Interviews: Volume I by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Charta, 967 pp., $60, June 2003, 9788881584314

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: silly mistakes and blood for Bush

Andrew Berry

A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics by Nicholas Wright Gillham. Oxford, 416 pp., £22.50, September 2002, 0 19 514365 5

Peter Campbell

At the Imperial War Museum: Eric Ravilious

Matthew Reynolds

Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Andrew Frisardi. Carcanet, 287 pp., £14.95, April 2003, 1 85754 672 5

Patrice Higonnet

Jean Moulin: Le politique, le rebelle, le résistant by Jean-Pierre Azéma. Perrin, 507 pp., €24, April 2003, 2 262 01329 2

Mark Doty

Poem: ‘Heaven for Paul’

E.S. Turner

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War by Donald Thomas. Murray, 429 pp., £20, July 2003, 0 7195 5732 1

Ronald Stevens

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street by Ruth Dudley Edwards. Secker, 484 pp., £20, May 2003, 0 436 19992 0

Tony Wood

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia by Richard Pipes. Yale, 153 pp., £16.95, April 2003, 0 300 09848 0

Bernard O’Donoghue

Poem: ‘Bona Fide Travellers’

Thomas Laqueur

Diary: memories in German

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