BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two ...

In his Portraits from Memory, Bertrand Russell ends his brief memoir of Joseph Conrad: Conrad, I suppose, is in process of being forgotten. But his intense and passionate nobility shines in my memory ...

Liberal historian and politician Conrad Russell, 67, son of philosopher Bertrand Russell, has died. Russell died Thursday after a long illness, announced the Liberal Democrats, the party he ...